hi, i'm trying to pack up some source for pov-ray. i didn't check non-free (didn't really want to), but i do have contrib sources in my sources.list (don't worry i'm getting to my question soon =), and didn't see it there, so i went to their website and downloaded and compiled it. i used dh_make to make the requiredfiles to make a .deb, did some minor editing - it's for my own personal use, so i figured enough to tell *me* what it was was enough, and to get it functional - dh_make isn't doing --sysconfdir=/etc like it should, btw. now, what's hanging me up is there's docs in an html/ directory, so i added a dh_help to the debian/rules file. for some reason it's doesn't a. see my changes to the postrm, prerm, postinst, and preinst files in debian/, and konks out saying: dh_dhelp ------- dhelp processing ------- find: debian/tmp/usr/share/doc: No such file or directory ------------------------------------ then i try to install it, and since it didn't complete properly the installation fails: (Reading database ... 174172 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace povray 3.50c-1 (using ../povray_3.50c-1_powerpc.deb) ... Document `povray' is not installed, cannot remove. Unpacking replacement povray ... Setting up povray (3.50c-1) ... cannot create dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/povray/html/.dhelp': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing povray (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: povray i've looked up google, the man pages, and /usr/share/doc, and none of them are giving me any clues on how to *fix* problems that may arise, and i've double-checked what i've done, and it *seems* ok, but it obviously isn't. i've tried 6 times or more to get it to work, and *shrug*. i'm running unstable on a PPC 7500 604e. cheers, eric -- UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.nuit.ca/ : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ `. `' | PGP key ID: 6169 BE0C 0891 A038 `- |
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