Re: dselect install does not work
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > 93% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
>
> I grepped the whole archive the other day and traced this back to three
> packages that had templates files that were not usable by potato's
> debconf. At least one of those (leafnode) is already fixed, bugs are
> filed on all, etc. But none of them are part of standard IIRC, so I
> don't know why you'd have run accross them in this test.
You are right... the bad package was `gs', which I also added to the
standard system (but did not realize until today, when I was unable to
reproduce the error following my own recipe).
> You can find
> out what package it is with strace, or by running dpkg-preconfigure by
> hand on each .deb it was going to intall. I doubt I missed a package in
> my grep of the archive, but it couldn't hurt to make sure.
By running dpkg-preconfigure on each .deb file I finally arrived at
the psfontmgr_0.4.5 package in woody, which gs recommends.
The Bug is #106360 (grave), reported by you three days ago (funny :-).
Now, ideally I would like to see psfontmgr_0.4.5 out of woody, but I
don't know whether this is asking too much.
Thanks a lot.
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