Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg
On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 10:06:53PM +0000, Bill Leach wrote:
> OK, that was probably the case as fvwm2 is now working. However, I do think that it would be more useful is dselect/
> dpkg reported "configured".
>
> Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
> dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
> package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration
> cannot configure (current status `installed')
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> fvwm2
>
> To me, that seems to be saying that fvwm2 still needs configuration but there is something wrong. Now I admit
> that this is no doubt due in part to my own ignorance. I suspect now that if the package was not configured that the parenthetical statement would read something like:
> (current status 'unpacked') -- yes?
Something like that. I agree that "not ready for configuration"
is not the best message. Perhaps you could file a bug against dpkg?
Hamish
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