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-1.15.8.7/src/help.c
===================================================================
--- dpkg-1.15.8.7.orig/src/help.c	2010-12-20 01:25:36.000000000 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.15.8.7/src/help.c	2011-12-07 14:51:02.783461487 +0000
@@ -181,30 +181,9 @@
    * FIXME: none of the stuff here will work if admindir isn't inside
    * instdir as expected.
    */
-  size_t instdirl;
-
-  if (*instdir) {
-    if (chroot(instdir)) ohshite(_("failed to chroot to `%.250s'"),instdir);
-    if (chdir("/"))
-      ohshite(_("failed to chdir to `%.255s'"), "/");
-  }
-  if (f_debug & dbg_scripts) {
-    struct varbuf args = VARBUF_INIT;
-    const char **argv = cmd->argv;
-
-    while (*++argv) {
-      varbufaddc(&args, ' ');
-      varbufaddstr(&args, *argv);
-    }
-    varbufaddc(&args, '\0');
-    debug(dbg_scripts, "fork/exec %s (%s )", cmd->filename, args.buf);
-    varbuf_destroy(&args);
-  }
-  instdirl= strlen(instdir);
-  if (!instdirl)
-    return cmd->filename;
-  assert(strlen(cmd->filename) >= instdirl);
-  return cmd->filename + instdirl;
+  if (*instdir)
+    setenv("D", instdir, 1);
+  return cmd->filename;
 }  
 
 void