On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > It's actually a ghostscript-8.61-4 oddity, but was probably there > before: Updating fails for me with the message > > Preparing to replace ghostscript 8.61-3 (using .../ > ghostscript_8.61-4_darwin-i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement ghostscript ... > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary- > darwin-i386/text/ghostscript_8.61-4_darwin-i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/sw/share/doc/html', which is also in package > libsablot > > There is a line > > ln -s %p/share/ghostscript/%v %i/share/doc/html > > in the ghostscript InstallScript which is responsible for this. > From libsablot, /sw/share/doc/html is a directory, and this cannot > be reconciled with ghostscript trying to transform it into a symlink. > > Strangely enough, on another machine the installation of > ghostscript goes ahead despite libsablot being installed, too. The > symlink is just silently dropped on the floor on that machine. I > have no clue why dpkg behaves differently in these two cases. Both > machines have the same system (10.5.2/intel), same Fink, (almost) > same everything. > > Final remark: IMHO neither libsablot nor ghostscript should have / > sw/share/doc/html. The directory /sw/share/doc should be reserved > exclusively for subdirectories named after Fink packages. > > -- > Martin >
OK, I'll just remove that line and put a new revision on the tracker. I think I'll keep the version at 8.61even though there's a new version 8.62 of ghostscript. They are having a problem with the licence of one of the included fonts and were talking about a 8.63 release following closely on the heels of 8.62 to fix that, so it seems better to skip 8.62 for the fink distribution to avoid that license issue (they accidentally include a non-free font instead of a GPL version). Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
