On Mar 21, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> Does anyone know why when installing ghostscript 8.61-3 in fink >> 10.5 unstable, >> the following dpkg warnings appear? >> >> Preparing to replace ghostscript 8.61-3 (using .../ >> ghostscript_8.61-4_darwin-i386.deb) ... >> Unpacking replacement ghostscript ... >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/share/cups/model': >> Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/share/cups': >> Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/share': Directory >> not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/libexec/cups/ >> filter': Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/libexec/cups': >> Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/libexec': Directory >> not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr': Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/private/etc/cups': >> Directory not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/private/etc': Directory >> not empty >> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/private': Directory not >> empty >> >> I don't recall ever seeing anything like that before. >> Jack > > Actually this is from installing 8.61-4 over in place of 8.61-3. > > 8.61-3 installed files outside of the Fink tree--though I would have > thought the validator would have caught that: > > $ dpkg -L ghostscript | grep -v "\/sw\/" > /. > /private > /private/etc > /private/etc/cups > /private/etc/cups/pstoraster.convs > /sw > /usr > /usr/libexec > /usr/libexec/cups > /usr/libexec/cups/filter > /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstopxl > /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster > /usr/share > /usr/share/cups > /usr/share/cups/model > /usr/share/cups/model/pxlcolor.ppd > /usr/share/cups/model/pxlmono.ppd > > 8.61-4 disables cups support so as not to install these files, and > dpkg is just warning you that it isn't going to delete files and > directories that aren't empty because you have stuff there. > >
Hi, sorry about that - it's a side effect of a mistake I made in the previous revisions of ghostscript 8.61, where a few (trivial) files slipped through and got installed outside of /sw, exactly in the directories you list: /private/etc/cups /usr/libexec/cups/filter /usr/share/cups/model These are now being removed when ghostscript is updated. Ghostscript thinks it needs to install these files in order to tie itself into the CUPS printing system. This capability didn't exist in earlier versions, and I overlooked that this new feature had been made the default in version 8.61, and required a configure flag to _disable_ it. That was the mistake I'm reverting in this revision 8.61-4. If there's another way of doing this without causing those warning messages, that would be great - I don't want to cause alarm, but the fact is that I let this slip through and thought this is the best way to fix the fink policy violation. So with this revision, CUPS printing is disabled, as it has been for all previous versions all along. In a future version, one could instead enable CUPS printing with a post-install script that the user could run by hand. Or maybe the devels could give me permission to write files into those CUPS directories so that I don't have to make it so complicated to install CUPS support? I don't feel strongly either way, but do apologize if this hickup is causing trouble. Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
