pkg(1) continues after pre-install script fails

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 18:15:42 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> The linux_base-* packages require Linux support in the kernel during
>> installation because they run /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig.  The packages
>> have a PRE-INSTALL script that checks this and returns an error if the
>> support isn't there, but pkg(1) ignores such errors and continues to
>> install the files anyway.  Then it runs ldconfig via POST-INSTALL which
>> fails but errors from this are also ignored and pkg(1) exits normally.
>> It looks like this:
>> 
>> sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease'
>> linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting
>> pkg-static: PRE-INSTALL script failed
>> ELF binary type "0" not known.
>> /bin/sh: /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: Exec format error
>> pkg-static: POST-INSTALL script failed
>> 
>> Shouldn't pkg(1) abort when pre-install fails and return an error when
>> post-install fails?  
> 
> It has been reverted because the number of script failing in the ports tree
> is still too high :(

Can you provide a patch that enables this again and request an exp-run?