Michal Politowski wrote: > Configuring mtools resulted in broken pipe from gzip > to install-info, which in itself is as far as I was able > to read from install-info completely normal and happens all the time. > This time it caused install-info to stop with > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe > install-info: read gzip -d </usr/share/info/mtools.info.gz |: 256
I saw this same install-info breakage when building a woody chroot with debootstrap. I can probably reproduce it at will; at least I was able to reproduce it once. > not a sign that install-info knew anything about the SIGPIPE. > > But of course upgrading mtools without touching gnupg > worked fine, running dpkg --configure -a from the shell worked as well. > > Should it be reported as a bug in aptitude? I'm very unsure about that. > > PS. I'm not on debian-devel yet, so please cc me if possible. I think it's a bug of some kind in install-info, ccing to the dpkg list. -- see shy jo
