Bug#425781: texlive-base: Upgrade failes
Dear Kohda-san,
nice to hear you again, it was quite some time we didn't get into
contact!
On Fre, 25 Mai 2007, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > This bug is solved now, but for those who already did purge, the only
> > solution is to reinstall the texlive packages (in particular
> > texlive-base and texlive-base-bin, but that might not be sufficient)
> > with the dpkg option --force-confmiss.
>
> So I'd like to know how you plan to handle this bug.
Good question. What about adding a bit of code to the
common.functions.postinst. Currently:
if [ -f "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted" ]; then
echo "Preserving removal of $cfgfile."
mv "$cfgfile" "$cfgfile.dpkg-new"
rm "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted"
fi
change it to
if [ -f "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted" ]; then
echo "It looks like $cfgfile has been removed."
echo "If you didn't do this it could be bug #420390."
echo "If you had tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 installed and purged it,"
echo "this is the case."
echo "Please reinstatiate $cfgfile from $cfgfile.new"
echo "Preserving removal of $cfgfile."
mv "$cfgfile" "$cfgfile.dpkg-new"
rm "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted"
fi
(Wording could be changed).
Would this be a good option?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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