Re: dpkg upgrade error
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote:
> > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because
> > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not
> > have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made
> > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and
> > everything went fine. It deleted the soft link and did whatever
> > it wanted to do (stuck some documentation in there, or a soft link
> > thereto, or something).
>
> I think that should work OK, although I wouldn't guarantee it. For
> myself, I edited the preinst in the .deb and added '|| true' to the end
> of the offending line, as the script seemed to be intended to do
> something if /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util was a symbolic link but probably
> wasn't intended to fail if it was a real directory.
This should have been fixed in the latest upload.
Simon
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