Re: More ncurses...

[roro <rossius@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>]

There is somehow a glitch we have to solve in the pre/post-inst/rm 
scripts for ncurses and potentially for readline.
My bash is now (and should be in the future, maybe even with shared 
readline):

root@ernie:tty1:/lib# ldd /bin/bash
        libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

and don't like to be invoked without libncurses.so.3.0 handy.  Is it
really ok to move libncurses.so.3.0 to libncurses.so.3.0.new in pre
--- why is this TRT?  Upgrading libc
  5.2.16-1 -> 5.2.16-2 -> 5.2.16-3 -> 5.2.18-0
seems to work, but ncurses
  3.0-1.9.8a-2 -> 3.0-1.9.8a-3 -> 3.0-1.9.8a-3
left me with /lib/libncurses.3.0.new but without /lib/libncurses.3.0.

This has to be avoided at all costs!

mfg
Rolf Rossius

root@ernie:tty3:/fs7/debian/binary/base# dpkg -i ncurses3.0-1.9.8a-3.deb
(Reading database ... 7711 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ncurses3.0 (using ncurses3.0-1.9.8a-3.deb) ...
sh: can't load library 'libncurses.so.3.0'
dpkg: error processing ncurses3.0-1.9.8a-3.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 16
sh: can't load library 'libncurses.so.3.0'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 16
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ncurses3.0-1.9.8a-3.deb