- Package:
- isc-dhcp-server
- Source:
- isc-dhcp-server
- Description:
- ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment
- Submitter:
- PERFECTO MARTIS FLOREZ
- Date:
- 2026-08-05 17:33:08 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Installation breaks on /var/lib/dpkg/info/isc-dhcp-server.postinst Line 74: test ! -x /sbin/restorecon || restorecon /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases # echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin # whereis restorecon restorecon: /usr/sbin/restorecon /usr/share/man/man8/restorecon.8.gz restorecon is not in /sbin Editing line 74 and removing the path it works: test ! -x restorecon || restorecon /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
Currently I think it's expected that /sbin will be a symlink to /usr/sbin so this will work in all systems with a regular configuration. But having one reference to it with full path and another to it without a path is a bug in any case so the proposed fix is reasonable. A bigger problem is that the file will not exist on the first install of the package and therefore restorecon won't be able to do anything. A solution to that is to have the following line before the restorecon line: touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)