Re: updmap not run on installation?
Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de> schrieb:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>> > To me, this output looks perfectly normal. Hilmar, do you have any
>> > suspicion?
>>
>> Nope, sorry! Dennis, everything is up an running right now?
>
> Uhm, yea, as I wrote: After I ran updmap manually, everything was fine.
>
> I just wanted to point out that it (apparently) isn't run automatically
> on installaion or for whatever reason fails when it is run during
> installation, that's all.
The puzzling thing is that
- updmap _is_ called in postinst, and if it would have stopped before
that call, dpkg would have given you an error message
- updmap doesn't seem to have failed, because it would have shown up in
the debconf-show output.
Anyway, we still have that code in our postinst scripts that only
displays a debconf note when updmap or fmtutil fail. I have put this in
last summer in a kind of panic reaction, since we got so many RC bug
reports that took us days to track down, and finally it was always a
f**ed up user configuration.
But to be honest, I don't think that this is the way to go in the long
run. Should we remove this right now, and revert to a failing postinst?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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