On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:50:30AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Gordon Sadler wrote: > > This one worries me a bit. By fixed, do you mean dpkg will halt on > > maintainer script errors? > > Yes. > > > Reason I ask, I looked through this postinst, > > I can't seem to find anything wrong with it, specifically I don't recall > > seeing any backquotes, just some HERE documents. It does use some $VAR's > > inside the HERE docs, but.. is that the problem? > > I have no idea why that postinst breaks on your system, I definitely > tested it before I uploaded that modutils package. > I ran the postinst by hand later. No errors, no problems. So hopefully it was some kind of interaction with a bug in dpkg that causes the syntax error, unexpected EOF.
After noticing the effect deity and deity-gtk was causing, see my other post this thread, I removed them and the bug in dpkg is gone for now... I can use it to install/uninstall, just not those two packages. Gordon Sadler
