Debian bug report logs - #1626 mflib package dies when trying to reinstall Package: mflib ; Reported by: Thomas Charles CONWAY ; Done: Nils Rennebarth . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-done: From ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de!nils Tue Oct 10 08:36:05 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t2gin-000HoDC; Tue, 10 Oct 95 08:36 PDT Received: from ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de ([204.231.136.130]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25453 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-changes-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 10 Oct 1995 08:35:33 -0700 Received: by ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Tue, 10 Oct 95 16:33 MET Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:33:51 +0100 (MET) From: Nils Rennebarth To: Debian Changes Cc: Debian Bugs Done Subject: Bug#1626: mflib Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue Oct 10 14:54:02 MET 1995 Package: mflib Version: 1.0-5 Description: Auxiliary files to run Metafont Priority: Low Changes: Fixed postrm added -f to the rm in the postinst # File: File: mflib-1.0-5.deb 38957 f84381853dc85159b9613cd3b69eb677 binary/tex File: mflib-1.0-5.tar.gz 40322 4392c89fd84a31782d0cdfa31988b2d4 source/tex ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notification sent to Thomas Charles CONWAY : Bug acknowledged by developer. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply sent to Nils Rennebarth : You have taken responsibility. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cs.mu.OZ.AU!conway Tue Oct 10 03:32:14 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t2byN-000BaSC; Tue, 10 Oct 95 03:31 PDT Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU by pixar.com with SMTP id AA19182 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 10 Oct 1995 03:30:53 -0700 Received: from munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with SMTP (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50); id AA24978 Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:31:11 +1000 (from conway) Received: from munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU by munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU with SMTP (8.6.10/slave-1.1) id KAA14161; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:31:10 GMT Message-Id: <199510101031.14161@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 20:31:10 1000 Sender: conway@cs.mu.OZ.AU From: Thomas Charles CONWAY X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.2 IP7) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: mflib package dies when trying to reinstall X-Url: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Package: mflib Version: 1.0 Revision: 4 I'm sorry I can't quote the exact messages because I'm away from my linux box (which is at home), but I am fairly sure about what the problem I'm reporting is and what the fix is. When using dselect, I interrupted installation after it had installed mflib but before it had configured anything. When I restarted it failed during the "preparing..." stage. The error message was rm: /usr/doc/texmf no such file or directory It looks like there should be an "rm -f" where there is presently only an "rm". I suggest this, because I reran the installation several times and each time it failed, then I did a "touch /usr/doc/texmf" and reran the installation and everything went okay. Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Thomas Charles CONWAY : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1626 ; Package mflib . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov