Bug#248351: tetex-bin: update-texmf: cp -p gives an error
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-14
Severity: normal
pedrop@sip.ucm.es wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Pedro Pablo. I'm a spanish person, and my english is not very good,
> sorry about that.
>
> This is my first bug report, and I'm in fact not very sure about it.
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> I've tried to install tetex packages in Debian unstable, but I get the next error:
>
> # apt-get install tetex-bin
> .. more things ...
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure)
> the post-installation subprocess return the next error result: 1
> Some problems were found processing
> tetex-bin
The english message would be:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> (I get the messages in spanish, and I've translated them, so I guess they are not
> specially correct).
No hay que traducir los mensajes - normalmente los entendemos en quada
lingua que utiliza el alfabeto europeo ;-). Son muy simple y no hay
muchos differentes mensajes.
> I've been looking for the problem, and I solved it changing /usr/sbin/update-texmf
> (i'm sorry; i have not diff file because I don't know how to build it).
> My change is minor. Near the end of the file the next line appears:
>
> cp -a ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
>
> I got the error:
>
> cp: preserving permissions for `/tmp/tmp.wRmhQA/texmfXZdf7VA.md5sum.d': invalid
> argument
>
> So, i've just change the line with:
>
> cp -R ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
Hm. What kind of filesystem do you have on /tmp? It seems one cannot
set permissions there, which is odd.
Regards, Frank
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