Re: problem installing deb packages
On 22 Oct 1998, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> >> I've installed gnumach, hurd and glibc packages successfully.
> >> However, I get the following message when trying to install
> >> base-files, shellutils and textutils: dpkg (subprocess): unable to
> >> execute new pre-installation script: No such file or directory
>
> I get this message too.
>
> It looks a lot like a bug with dpkg, but I don't know what is
> happening. It is too bad that dpkg doesn't ever tell you *where* the
> `No such file or directory' was, or I'd have some idea of what to look
> at next.
>
> Perhaps you should file this as a bug against dpkg,
Mmm, maybe it would be better not to bother dpkg people yet unless we
know exactly where is the fault.
I have not even tried to install base-files myself under Hurd (shame on
me, I'm base-files maintainer!), but surely I will have to do a
Hurd-specific release of it, containing the /usr -> . symlink.
In Debian, base-files is never supposed to be installed as a "new"
package, because it is included in the base system (i.e. almost always,
dpkg -i base-files.deb is an "upgrade") Since we do not have a "Debian
GNU/Hurd base system" yet, errors are likely to happen, so please be
patient :-)
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