I was creating a package for wxJSON, and got strange errors. I tracked it down to a backslash character in a doc filename. That is obviously not a good idea, but it is a valid file name. The easy solution is to avoid "ugly" file names, but it would be nice to get an error message when building the package file.
Here is the output from the install phase: Unpacking wxjson (from .../wxjson_1.2.1-1_darwin-i386.deb) ... ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 6 Updating the list of locally available binary packages. /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386 New package: dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386/DEBIAN/wxjson-shlibs_1.2.1-1_darwin-i386.deb New package: dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386/DEBIAN/wxjson_1.2.1-1_darwin-i386.deb ... E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386/DEBIAN/wxjson_1.2.1-1_darwin-i386.deb /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386/DEBIAN/wxjson-shlibs_1.2.1-1_darwin-i386.deb The package ends up halfway installed, and running 'dpkg --configure -a' doesn't help. Running ' sudo dpkg --remove wxjson' gives the following, and requires a --force flag to succeed: /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing wxjson (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: wxjson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
