aws-codedeploy-agent: CodeDeploy Agent install fails on Ubuntu 20.10 (and likely others)

In the deb package, DEBIAN/conffiles contains the line:

etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeployagent.yml

Note that this is a relative path.

It seems that new versions of dpkg require absolute paths for specified conf files:

https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-dpkg-cvs@lists.debian.org/msg07446.html

Error I received:

Preparing to unpack .../codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb ...
dpkg: error processing archive ./codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb (--install):
conffile name 'etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeployagent.yml' is not an absolute pathname

Workaround:

Extract the package, add a leading forward slash in DEBIAN/conffiles, repackage, and manually install.

wget https://aws-codedeploy-us-east-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/releases/codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb
mkdir extracted
dpkg-deb -R codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb ./extracted
<edit DEBIAN/conffiles to add the forward slash>
dpkg-deb -b extracted fixed.deb
sudo /usr/bin/gdebi -n -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dkpg::Options::=--force-confold ./fixed.deb

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 15 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

yikes, this isn’t good. Adding to this week’s grooming. Targeting next release of the agent.

philstrong on Feb 2, 2021

Btw, this documentation is brutallllllllllll. After a few hours i got here when I finally sudo tail -fn500 /var/log/amazon/ssm/amazon-ssm-agent.log

For the lazy and tired

sudo apt install gdebi -y
wget https://aws-codedeploy-us-east-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/releases/codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb
mkdir extracted
dpkg-deb -R codedeploy-agent_1.3.1-1880_all.deb ./extracted
echo "/etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeployagent.yml" > extracted/DEBIAN/conffiles
dpkg-deb -b extracted fixed.deb
sudo /usr/bin/gdebi -n -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dkpg::Options::=--force-confold ./fixed.deb

rromanchuk on May 13, 2021