Re: Problem with the new xlibs deb

From: Joey Hess (joeyh_at_debian.org)
Date: 09/11/05

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To: Andrej Prsa <andrej.prsa@guest.arnes.si>

    Andrej Prsa wrote:
    > when updating xlibs to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb on debian testing box,
    > aptitude fails with the following message:
    >
    > dpkg: error
    > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb
    > (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit
    > status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 886:
    > replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback: command not found
    >
    > I took a look at the debian/postinst file and indeed there is a
    > trivial naming mismatch (remove_conffile_with_symlink_rollback
    > instead of replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback). Is there a way to
    > extract the binary package, fix the problem and repackage it without
    > the hussle of building it from source? It's a trivial fixup, yet it
    > keeps a bunch of other packages from being updated, so I'd really like
    > to resolve this as soon as possible.

    Just fix the postinst and run dpkg --configure -a 

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see shy jo



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