Re: tetex-base in woody is bad

[Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Robi wrote:
> 
> > trying to install tetex-base I get this:
> > Unpacking tetex-base (from tetex-base_1.0.2-1.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing tetex-base_1.0.2-1.deb (--install):
> >  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  tetex-base_1.0.2-1.deb
> > 
> > same for the tetex-base_1.0.2-1_all.deb package. 
> 
> I'm wondering why this happens at this early time of installation. Just to
> make sure it's a problem with the package and not a problem with disk 
> space: Could you send me the output of "df"?

I confirm there is a problem, the preinst script should have 'exit 0';
instead of 'exit 1;' on last line.  Maybe the removal of
install-fmt-base is obsolete too.

Denis