Re: tetex-base in woody is bad

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Denis Barbier 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 install-fmt-base is obsolete too.

You are right. I'm working on a fixed package.

> Denis

cu,
Adrian

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