On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:50:00PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Arnold Metselaar a écrit : > > When I try to upgrade the tzdata pakage I get the following messages. > > Setting up tzdata (2007j-1etch1) ... > > Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone. > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst: line 27: /usr/sbin/tzconfig: No such > > file or directory > > dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > tzdata > > > > The tzconfig program is in the package libc6 for etch, but no package > > currently > > lenny or sid has it. > > It may be possible to upgrade with a non-interactive front-end and change > > the > > time zone by hand afterwards, but a postinst script may not assume the > > prezence > > of a program that is not provided by a dependency or an essential package. > > > > If you use libc6 from unstable, you should also uses tzdata from unstable. > > libc6 conflicts on the orginally version in etch, but unfortunately this > doesn't work anymore now that the version has been upgraded.
I can confirm this bug on a testing(lenny) system. The problem come from the tzdata packet 2007j-1etch1 which is present in the volatile repository. The volatile repository is for stable(etch) systems but I do not know if this bug occurs on stable systems. Antoine