Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-02-26 Thread Rob Browning
severity 698813 normal thanks Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: Yes, that is quite possible. For a while I maintained my own emacs package while I waited for the Gnome dependencies in the official ones to get sorted out. I also have a number of personal Lisp packages and some of them are

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-02-25 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: Looks to me like /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common is where it happens. It is probably called with $FLAVOR set in turn to each file name in /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/flavor/installed, and as I say in the other subthread, somehow

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-02-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:42:14 -0600 Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Rob Any chance you might have installed some unofficial emacs package Rob that might have tried to use the emacs flavor for itself? Yes, that is quite possible. For a while I maintained my own emacs package while I

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-29 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2013-01-23, Rob Browning wrote: Antoine Beaupré anar...@koumbit.org writes: anarcat@angela:~$ ls -ald /etc/emacs* drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan 22 19:16 /etc/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct 3 10:43 /etc/emacs23 - /etc/emacs/ So yeah, this is a symlink pointing to itself... Not

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Package: emacsen-common Version: 2.0.5 Severity: grave I get this trying to upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5: Setting up emacsen-common (2.0.5) ... Install emacsen-common for emacs23 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23 Error occurred processing

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Antoine Beaupré anar...@koumbit.org: It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months ago - I suspect something broke back then and this was the workaround I found. No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these directories manually. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: Antoine Beaupré anar...@koumbit.org: It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months ago - I suspect something broke back then and this was the workaround I found. No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:29:27 -0800 Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org wrote: Antoine It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months Antoine ago - I suspect something broke back then and this was the Antoine workaround I found. Ian No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
Antoine Beaupré anar...@koumbit.org writes: anarcat@angela:~$ ls -ald /etc/emacs* drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan 22 19:16 /etc/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct 3 10:43 /etc/emacs23 - /etc/emacs/ So yeah, this is a symlink pointing to itself... Not sure how I managed that one, but I

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: The relevant information is indeed there - but there is a subdirectory emacs as well as one for the specific flavor (emacs23 in this case). The machinery looks at the directory and thinks emacs is one of the flavors that must be handled. Which machinery do

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:09:36 -0800 Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org wrote: Ian No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these Ian directories manually. Ian Ian I think I know what the problem is. Look at #695501. Ian Ian The relevant information is indeed there - but there is a

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:17:57 -0600 Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Ian The relevant information is indeed there - but there is a Ian subdirectory emacs as well as one for the specific flavor Ian (emacs23 in this case). The machinery looks at the directory and Ian thinks emacs is one of

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:17:57 -0600 Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Ian The relevant information is indeed there - but there is a Ian subdirectory emacs as well as one for the specific flavor Ian (emacs23 in this case). The machinery looks at the

Bug#698813: Too many levels of symbolic links on upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:05:12 -0600 Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Rob So are you saying that emacsen-common somehow created the Rob problematic symlink? Hell yeah. Sorry if that wasn't clear. The first thing I did before anything else was removing the links by hand (with rm), then I