Re: Bug in tetex preinstall scripts
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nagy Erno wrote:
> Hi!
Hi Ned!
> First, sorry for my terrible english, second, I'm novice in deb.
> package.
> Well, I'd like to install tetex-base_1.0.2-1_all.deb and
> tetex-bin_1.0.7-1_i386.deb package from woody, but the tetex-base
> package stop with an error, because the preinst script return with exit
> code 1. So I tried to debug, and I noticed it depend on perl, but the
> apt-get didn't want to install perl. So I installed perl and then tried
> install tetex again. The results was same. So I began debug preinst
> script and I noticed if it was called with 'install' argument, it will
> return always with error code 1 (exit 1). I rewrite it to 'exit 0' and
> rebuild package, then I installed the the new package. It looks like
> work properly.
> If it was bug, or I made something wrong, or it was right please answer
> for my e-mail.
Thanks for your report. This is a known bug and fixed packages will be
uploaded in a few days.
> Thanks,
> Ned
cu,
Adrian
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