A small surmountable problem with xml-sax-pm ... The pakage was installed as a dependancy for xml-simple-pm, from current-unstable. The problem was a mkdir command while installing the .deb ...
Selecting previously deselected package xml-sax-pm. (Reading database ... 13824 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xml-sax-pm (from .../xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... mkdir: /sw/etc/xml/SAX/ParserDetails.d: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package xml-sax-pm-0.12-2 I manually created /sw/etc/xml and /sw/etc/xml/SAX, then re-ran the install for xml-simple-pw, which worked fine this time .. dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading database ... 13867 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xml-sax-pm (from .../xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Setting up xml-sax-pm (0.12-2) ... update-perl-sax-parsers: adding Perl SAX parser module info file of XML::SAX::PurePerl... update-perl-sax-parsers: updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file... So, somewhere there is an assumption that /sw/etc/xml/SAX will exist before xml-sax-pm is installed, which apears to be wrong. -jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
