Bug#284469: marked as done ("cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postinst failure)
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Subject: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postinst failure
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-23
Tags: +patch
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-23) ...
Merging information from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ...
cp: preserving times for
`/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d/1.0.7+20011202-7.1': Operation not
permitted
cp: preserving times for `/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d/2.0.2-13':
Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for `/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d': Operation
not permitted
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
In /usr/sbin/update-texmf , line 88,
cp -a ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
may be made into
cp -dr --preserve=mode,ownership ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
...leaving out "archive", which may cause "cp" to fail.
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Subject: Re: Bug#257075: tetex-bin: apt-get install fails
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On 01.07.04 Miquel Cantallops (miquel@cantallops.net) wrote:
Hi all,
> apt-get install tetex-bin fails rendering the paquet uninstallable. So
> all paquets that depend on tetex-bin are also uninstallable.
>
> # apt-get install tetex-bin
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
> lpr tetex-extra
> Recommended packages:
> dialog texi2html perl-tk
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> tetex-bin
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/3903kB of archives.
> After unpacking 8864kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin.
> (Reading database ... 30602 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_2.0.2-15_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-15) ...
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf with new
> version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf with new version
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf with new version
>
> Generating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... cp: preserving permissions for
> `/tmp/tmp.dE4EBE/texmfXI3miuC.md5sum.d': Invalid argument
>
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> tetex-bin
>
That bug (together with #248351, #284469) was figured out to be
caused by a buggs xfs implementation in the 2.4.18 Linux kernel. Now
as even the bf-kernel is 2.4.27 and should have a non-broken
implementation these bugs can be closed.
Kind Regards,
Hilmar
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