Do you have the fileutils package installed by any chance?  I recall that I
had similar problems with rm in fink operations when I installed it.

On 2/1/02 12:58 PM, "Eric Torrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I cannot get the tetex package installed, as I am having
> a problem with texmf.  After unpacking the tarball, the
> install script fails when trying to remove the texmf directory
> from /sw/src.  Most other packages issue a warning, but allow
> the installation to finish.  Also, if I issue this last rm
> command myself it works fine.  Is there something I am missing
> here?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eric
> 
> ---
> [torrence] root# fink -version
> Package manager version: 0.9.7
> Distribution version: 0.3.2a
> [torrence] root# fink install tetex-texmf
> Reading package info...
> Information about 288 packages read in 1 seconds.
> pkg tetex-texmf  version ###
> pkg tetex-texmf  version 1.0.2-4
> The following package will be installed or updated:
> tetex-texmf
> mkdir -p /sw/src/tetex-texmf-1.0.2-4
> tar -xvzf /sw/src/teTeX-texmf-1.0.2.tar.gz
> [...]
> rm -R /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-1.0.2-4/sw/share/texmf/tex/context
> rm: cannot remove directory
> `/sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-1.0.2-4/sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base':
> Directory not empty
> rm: cannot remove directory
> `/sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-1.0.2-4/sw/share/texmf/tex/context': Directory
> not empty
> ### rm failed, exit code 1
> Failed: installing tetex-texmf-1.0.2-4 failed
> [torrence] root#
> 
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