Debian: fail gracefully if modules can't be loaded on install

[openvswitch] / debian / openvswitch-switch.postinst

diff --git a/debian/openvswitch-switch.postinst b/debian/openvswitch-switch.postinst
index 74b52ba90f09644982d1b98fcaf9efed7ba6bb94..c50853a11879da0501c88060c5734745b1139f5f 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/openvswitch-switch.postinst
+++ b/debian/openvswitch-switch.postinst
@@ -44,6 +44,23 @@ case "$1" in
         ;;
 esac
 
+HAVE_KMOD="no"
+
+init_script_error () {
+       if test X"$HAVE_KMOD" = Xno; then
+               exit 0
+       fi
+       exit 1
+}
+
+# Do not fail package installation just because the kernel module
+# is not available.
+if test -x /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch; then
+    if invoke-rc.d openvswitch-switch load-kmod; then
+       HAVE_KMOD="yes"
+    fi
+fi
+
 #DEBHELPER#
 
 exit 0