On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:27:10PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > William Scott wrote: > >> I'm getting this one one machine, whereas the identical (presumably) > >> packages coexist on my others peacefully: > >> > >> Unpacking replacement tetex ... > >> Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_3.0-1002_darwin-i386.deb) ... > >> Removing any leftover files from obsolete teTeX installations ... > >> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary- > >> darwin-i386/text/tetex-base_3.0-1002_darwin-i386.deb (--install): > >> trying to overwrite `/sw/share/texmf-local', which is also in package > >> gnuplot > [] > >> > > It appears that order matters here. If you install tetex-base first, it > > installs an empty %p/share/texmf-local directory, which gnuplot will > > happily drop its files in. On the other hand, if gnuplot is already > > installed dpkg doesn't want to drop an empty %p/share/texmf-local on top > > of that installed by gnuplot. > > > > I'd guess that gnuplot needs a Depends: tetex-base rather than just a > > BuildDepends to resolve this. > > I think it's a bug in the gnuplot package. It should install its > gnuplot.cfg file into /sw/etc/texmf.local instead of > /sw/share/texmf-local. A line like in the jadetex InstallScript > > mv %i/share/texmf-local %i/etc/texmf.local > > would do the trick.
I don't have these specific packages handy, but the same type of problem can occur when a 'make install' doesn't create a directory before copying a file "into it": install foo %i/share/foo-dir instead of mkdir %i/share/foo-dir install foo %i/share/foo-dir gives a *file* %i/share/foo-dir, leads to install-time breakage if there already is a foo-dir directory from an existing or previously-installed package. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
