Our pre/postinsts expect $D to be set when running in a sysroot and
don't expect a chroot. This matches up our system expectations with
what dpkg does.

Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE Specific]

RP 2011/12/07

Index: dpkg-1.17.1/src/script.c
===================================================================
--- dpkg-1.17.1.orig/src/script.c
+++ dpkg-1.17.1/src/script.c
@@ -111,36 +111,9 @@ preexecscript(struct command *cmd)
 	size_t instdirl = strlen(instdir);
 
 	if (*instdir) {
-		if (strncmp(admindir, instdir, instdirl) != 0)
-			ohshit(_("admindir must be inside instdir for dpkg to work properly"));
-		if (setenv("DPKG_ADMINDIR", admindir + instdirl, 1) < 0)
-			ohshite(_("unable to setenv for subprocesses"));
-
-		if (chroot(instdir))
-			ohshite(_("failed to chroot to `%.250s'"), instdir);
-	}
-	/* Switch to a known good directory to give the maintainer script
-	 * a saner environment, also needed after the chroot(). */
-	if (chdir("/"))
-		ohshite(_("failed to chdir to `%.255s'"), "/");
-	if (debug_has_flag(dbg_scripts)) {
-		struct varbuf args = VARBUF_INIT;
-		const char **argv = cmd->argv;
-
-		while (*++argv) {
-			varbuf_add_char(&args, ' ');
-			varbuf_add_str(&args, *argv);
-		}
-		varbuf_end_str(&args);
-		debug(dbg_scripts, "fork/exec %s (%s )", cmd->filename,
-		      args.buf);
-		varbuf_destroy(&args);
+		setenv("D", instdir, 1);
 	}
-	if (!instdirl)
-		return cmd->filename;
-
-	assert(strlen(cmd->filename) >= instdirl);
-	return cmd->filename + instdirl;
+	return cmd->filename;
 }
 
 /**