On 14 Jul 2010, at 19:35, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 7/14/10 1:13 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: >> >> On 14 Jul 2010, at 18:54, Dominique Dhumieres wrote: >> >>> On ppc OSX 10.5.8, installing texlive-base-0.20080816-3 >>> failed with: >>> >>> ... >>> updmap: Map file links or copies: >>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 16 Jul 12 17:12 /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/ >>> map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map -> dvipdfm_dl14.map >>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 14 Jul 12 17:12 /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/ >>> map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map -> psfonts_t1.map >>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 Jul 12 17:12 /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/ >>> map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map -> pdftex_dl14.map >>> >>> updmap: Done. >>> Adjusting permissions ... >>> * Web2c: (web2c). TeX, Metafont, and companion programs. >>> * DVI-to-Postscript: (dvips). Translating TeX DVI files to >>> PostScript. >>> * DVI-to-PNG: (dvipng). Translating TeX DVI files to >>> Portable Network Graphics (PNG). >>> Errors were encountered while processing: >>> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/texlive- >>> base_0.20080816-3_darwin-powerpc.deb >>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 >>> Failed: can't install package texlive-base-0.20080816-3 >>> >> >> Sorry Dominique, but that's not the error, the error must be much >> higher. >> You have to check your log from the point on where you see >> >>> Unpacking replacement texlive-base ... >> >> The error could very well be right there >> (eg, if you have asymptote installed, >>> /sw64/bin/dpkg: error processing //sw64/fink/debs/texlive- >>> base_0.20080816-3_darwin-x86_64.deb (--install): >>> trying to overwrite `/sw64/share/texmf-local', which is also in >>> package asymptote >> :)
> I believe the standard procedure is for packages to install their TeX > stuff in %p/etc/texmf.local instead, and then to make sure that TeX > knows about them in PostInst (cf. gnuplot). asymptote isn't doing > that. > I'll cc Martin. You're completely right (but notice the little "smile" at the end of my msg: I felt confident that this was the issue, and that the maintainer would pick it up without formal notice ..) This issue is a bit more basic than the stray asymptote file: it is that dpkg gets thrown in disarray when pkg 2 declares something as a symlink (to a folder, or always?), and pkg 1 as a folder. Then _ I think _ if I remember well.. _ nothing would go wrong when installing pkg 1 after pkg 2 : the deb would just expand according the already existing symlink in the file-system But afterwards dpkg thinks this symlink is a folder, belonging to pkg 1 !. Then, when trying to replace or overwrite the folder in pkg 1 by the symlink in pkg 2 (pkg 2 could be just pkg 1 with %r=%r+1), dpkg just refuses to do it, if I remember well. ! Would be nice if someone knew the exact specs and logic, and could tell them _ the above are just fuzzy memories .. JF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
