Re: apt-get Failure

[Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>]

Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +0000, michael wrote:
>
> > Michael Spang wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails:
> > >
> > > sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General 
> > > commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info
> > >
> > > The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way.
> >
> > so what do I do meantime? I'm in the middle of switching from stable to 
> > unstable when it hit the `sed` issue & aborted the dist-upgrade. I guess 
> > i have to wait for the bug-fix to get into unstable and then try again? 
> > (BTW followed the link in another email but it didn't really help me)
>
>
> Either grab the new version from incoming.debian.org that presumably
> fixes that bug, or grab an older version from snapshot.debian.net.

Or just temporarily comment out the line in ths postinst to pacify dpkg, 
as follows. Not installing the info shouldn't have serious consequences. 
The newer version seems to have appeared in my mirror's package list 
within the last hour, however.

 /var/lib/dpkg/info/sed.postinst:

#! /bin/sh -e

pkg=sed

if [ ! "$1" = "configure" ]; then
        exit 0
fi

#install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General commands" \
#                /usr/share/info/sed.info



BTW, is there an easy way to make reply in Thunderbird send to the 
mailing list list instead of the author of the message? I find it a pain 
to change the address each time.
Michael Spang