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Re: dh_installinfo ?



On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:19:36PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 25-Jan-2000 Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Hello, ...
> > 
> > i received a bug against one of my packages saying that the .info
> > documentation is not available by info directly, and that i should add a
> > prerm and postinst calling install-info.
> > 
> > Now, in debian/rules i do a :
> > 
> >   dh_installinfo ocaml.info/*
> > 
> 
> only if you place #DEBHELPER# in your scripts.  otherwise debhelper assumes you
> are doing it yourself.  Take a look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.postinst
> and see if the calls are there.

Err, ...

no when i add  #DEBHELPER#, it adds the following stuff only :

# Automatically added by dh_installdocs
if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/ocaml-doc ];
then
        rm -f /usr/doc/ocaml-doc
fi
# End automatically added section

Nothing gets installed by installinfo.

Guess i will have to do it by hand.

By the way, why does this package says :

Selecting previously deselected package ocaml-doc.
(Reading database ... 61386 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ocaml-doc 2.04-1 (using ocaml-doc_2.04-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-removal script: No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing ocaml-doc_2.04-1_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format
error
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ocaml-doc_2.04-1_all.deb

What is the meaning of exec format error ? And how do i fix it ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER


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