On 22 Oct 1998, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > >> I've installed gnumach, hurd and glibc packages successfully. > >> However, I get the following message when trying to install > >> base-files, shellutils and textutils: dpkg (subprocess): unable to > >> execute new pre-installation script: No such file or directory > > I get this message too. > > It looks a lot like a bug with dpkg, but I don't know what is > happening. It is too bad that dpkg doesn't ever tell you *where* the > `No such file or directory' was, or I'd have some idea of what to look > at next. > > Perhaps you should file this as a bug against dpkg,
Mmm, maybe it would be better not to bother dpkg people yet unless we know exactly where is the fault. I have not even tried to install base-files myself under Hurd (shame on me, I'm base-files maintainer!), but surely I will have to do a Hurd-specific release of it, containing the /usr -> . symlink. In Debian, base-files is never supposed to be installed as a "new" package, because it is included in the base system (i.e. almost always, dpkg -i base-files.deb is an "upgrade") Since we do not have a "Debian GNU/Hurd base system" yet, errors are likely to happen, so please be patient :-) -- "f77af41bd7d22fc7511445d04749ea40" (a truly random sig)
