Re: kernel-image install wedged

[Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com>]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:12:07AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote:
> > Er,  ''apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-powerpc''  downloads and
> > unpacks, and stumbles over kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc as mentioned
> > above.
> > A subsequent ''dpkg --configure -a'' yields the following:
>
> Maybe but an exit 0 early in /var/lib/pkg/kernel-image-2.6.8- 
> powerpc.postinst
> and retry ?

Thanks for the suggestion.
It didn't help a whole lot at first because the unpacking phase  
always overwrote the manual changes.

The hint helped though.  After a few iterations of no-opping the  
*postinst and *postrm scripts with exit 0, I managed to get the the  
package fully installed, then removed (and purged).

A bug report has been filed (339487).