Re: Bug#344538: hppa dependency problems on build of pdns
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> > Historically such
>> > problems were unpleasantly frequent on buildds due to a combination of buggy
>> > postrm scripts, and a bug in dpkg's rollback support when calling dpkg
>> > --purge for a package in the "installed" state. I believe the dpkg bug is
>> > fixed now, but a) I could be wrong, and b) there may be other bugs in the
>> > world.
>
>> Ah - can you point me to something to read about this?
>
> The dpkg changelog, maybe.
Thanks, it's #296026.
>> How can it be architecture-specific, or host-specific?
>
> It almost certainly wouldn't be. But it's quite possible for a different
> combination of package versions (with different maintainer script bugs) to
> be used on different autobuilders at a given moment.
Hm. But that doesn't explain why only a couple of formats failed to
build in tetex-bin's postinst in
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mysql-dfsg-5.0&ver=5.0.16-1&arch=hppa&stamp=1132626014&file=log&as=raw
and an other build try at the same time. If some formats build fine,
this means most parts of tetex-base must be installed properly; if
others fail, this means either a misconfiguration (rather unlikely on a
buildd) or missing files. Of course it was also on sarti.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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