Control: reassign -1 ucf 3.0032 Control: retitle 812402 ucf breaks installation of texlive-base (basename: missing operand)
On 2016-01-23 Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: > Package: texlive-base > Version: 2015.20160117-1 > Severity: serious > texlive-base fails to install: [...] > Setting up texlive-base (2015.20160117-1) ... > basename: missing operand > Try 'basename --help' for more information. > dpkg: error processing package texlive-base (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-6) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > texlive-base > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [...] Downgrading ucf from 3.0032 to 3.0031 made the package installable again. The failing command is this one in texlive-base postinst:37 ucf --purge /etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps This file does not exist at this time and /etc/texmf/dvips/config/ is an empty directory. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'