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Bug#338638: marked as done (tetex-base: dies when /usr/local/ read-only)

Your message dated Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:47:20 +0200
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and subject line Bug#338638: only affect sarge
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2c-8
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.2

Trying to upgrade from 20.2c-8 to 3.0.10:

dpkg: tetex-base: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 tetex-bin depends on tetex-base.
(Reading database ... 98267 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tetex-base ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R': Read-only file system
dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra:
 tetex-extra depends on tetex-bin (>= 2.99); however:
  Version of tetex-bin on system is 2.0.2-31.
dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-extra


-- Package-specific info:
######################################
 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r--  1 latex latex 9789 May 19 11:14 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--  1 root users 853 Nov 11 06:29 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 29 Aug  8 11:22 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-git6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  debconf                      1.4.58      Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                         1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii  texinfo                      4.7-2.2     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  ucf                          2.003       Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages tetex-base recommends:
pn  tetex-doc                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.4.58          Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils              2.15            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                     1.13.11.0.1     package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                       0.2-20          The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.0.2-3       GCC support library
ii  libice6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3             2.0.2-31        path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-3        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-5      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++6               4.0.2-3         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                  5.1.0-2         Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww0                  5.4.0-9         The W3C WWW library
ii  libx11-6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support             3.35-1          MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                     5.8.7-7         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                      4.1.4-4         The GNU sed stream editor
ii  ucf                      2.003           Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  xlibs                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-6       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii  dpkg                         1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii  tetex-bin                    2.0.2-31    The teTeX binary files
ii  ucf                          2.003       Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  tetex-base/olddat: true
  tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
  tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
  tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
  tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen:
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
  tetex-base/oldcfg: true
  tetex-base/oldupdm:
  tetex-base/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 3.0-1
# again correcting myself.  I assumed that we'd have to add a
# "failed-upgrade" stanza to the current package's prerm, but that's not
# the case - so no change needed here.  However, there's still the
# separate issue of a superfluous versioned Conflicts discovered here
clone 338638 -1
retitle -1 Superfluous versioned Conflicts on older tetex-bin; breaks some upgrades
found -1 3.0-20
# curious how this mixture of Pseudo-header and comments will be handled
# by the control server...
stop

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> Okay, I played around with that a bit.  Actually I see no reason why
> tetex-base needs to declare a conflict with older tetex-bin.  [...]
>
> The nice consequence is that we can be sure that the upgrade from sarge
> will proceed without removing tetex-base at an intermediate state, and
> therefore we can use a failed-upgrade stanza in the new package's
> preinst script.

The buggy code was only executed when the prerm was called with
"remove", not with "upgrade".  Therefore it will not be called upon
upgrade from sarge to etch.  There's no "failed-remove" argument,
naturally, so there's nothing we can do (except uploading to stable). 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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