Hi Neil, Neil Williams <codehelp <at> debian.org> writes: >Neil Williams <codehelp <at> debian.org> wrote: >> Neil Williams <codehelp <at> debian.org> wrote: >>
(I answering this thread via GMANE, because I subscribed today. Hope that work.) >>> I've mostly completed the perl rewrite of the Grip repository management >>> code for emdebian-tools 1.4.15 and things are looking a lot better. >> >> Still some more testing to do but things are looking better. > > debootstrap problems: > ===================== > > Only a little testing done so far, but these are the issues currently: > > 1. for some reason, when grip-config is unpacked, empty directories > that exist in the package (not just in the postinst) are not created. > /usr/share/info /usr/share/man/man1 and /usr/share/man/man8 > are required. grip-config might have to have some pointless files in > those directories. > I tried to setup a GRIP chroot via debootstrap with command: sudo debootstrap lenny /opt/emdebian-grip/ http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ Firstly it failed because /usr/share/info didn't exists in the chroot. I created the dir and the bootstrap went further, but broke again with failure: ----------8<--------------------------------------8<---------------------- ... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /opt/emdebian-grip dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/mawk_1.3.3-11.1em1_i386.deb ----------8<--------------------------------------8<---------------------- If I call it manually, I could see: ----------8<--------------------------------------8<---------------------- sudo chroot /opt/emdebian-grip dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/mawk_1.3.3-11.1em1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 1017 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mawk 1.3.3-11.1em1 (using .../mawk_1.3.3-11.1em1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mawk ... Setting up mawk (1.3.3-11.1em1) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "de_DE.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/man1/nawk.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/nawk.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mawk (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: mawk ----------8<--------------------------------------8<---------------------- I have no idea to solve this without repacking some packages. Do you have a hint? Could you please do a test on setup a GRIP chroot and provide information how it could be reached successfully? Thank you in advance. Kindly regards, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
