A couple of tweaks were needed since "dpkg-deb -c" prints verbose output
similar to what tar's -v option does. To rebuild the libgnomeui2-dev.list
file, I did the following:
$ dpkg-deb -c /sw/fink/debs/libgnomeui2-dev_2.0.6-2_darwin-powerpc.deb | awk '{if ($6
== "./") { print "/."; } else if (substr($6, length($6), 1) == "/") {print substr($6,
2, length($6) - 2); } else { print substr($6, 2, length($6) - 1);}}' >
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeui2-dev.list
Once I got past that, a similar problem was discovered with metacity-setup
0.7.1-3; not only was the list file trashed, but the deb file was a C
program. Again, I've no clue how that happened. I was unable to remove
this with "fink remove" or "dpkg -r --force...", and I couldn't use the
trick above to reconstruct the package list since there was no package to
speak of. So I just rm'ed the list and deb files for metacity-setup and
then ran "fink rebuild metacity-setup". Dropped in just fine.
Now, "fink update-all" is chugging along just fine.
Thanks!
--------------------------------------
Christopher A. Smith Arlington, VA USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:17:09PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Give it a try--I don't think there's a well-known answer. Somebody had
> a corrupt .list file yesterday, and I put a copy of mine on the web, so
> if your idea doesn't work, we can always do that.
>
> On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:28, Christopher A. Smith wrote:
> > Ouch, this isn't good. libgnomeui2-dev.list is a C header file, not a
> > file listing. A sample:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > /* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8 -*- */
> > /*
> > * A client-side GtkObject which exposes the
> > * Evolution:BookListener interface.
> > *
> > * Author:
> > * Nat Friedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > *
> > * Copyright 2000, Ximian, Inc.
> > */
> >
> > #ifndef __E_BOOK_TYPES_H__
> > #define __E_BOOK_TYPES_H__
> >
> > #include <libgnome/gnome-defs.h>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > How that happened is beyond me.
> >
> > Would it be sufficient to recreate this list by running something like:
> >
> > $ dpkg-deb -c /sw/fink/debs/libgnomeui2-dev_2.0.6-2_darwin-powerpc.deb >
>/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeui2-dev.list
> >
> > Or is there a more elegant/proper solution?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> > Christopher A. Smith Arlington, VA USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:01:54PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > > Let's see what the file looks like. Do a:
> > >
> > > cat /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeui2-dev.list
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 11:13, Christopher A. Smith wrote:
> > > > While trying to update various packages this morning via update-all (this
> > > > is off of CVS, by the way), an error was printed that is preventing me from
> > > > installing or updating packages. This has happened with fink 0.5.1.cvs
> > > > with package manager version 0.11.2 under Mac OS X 10.2.3 and 10.2.4.
> > > >
> > > > For example,
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > $ fink update popt popt-shlibs
> > > > sudo /sw/bin/fink update popt popt-shlibs
> > > > Information about 2194 packages read in 1 seconds.
> > > >
> > > > The following 2 packages will be installed or updated:
> > > > popt popt-shlibs
> > > >
> > > > [ compile steps snipped ]
> > > >
> > > > Writing control file...
> > > > dpkg-deb -b root-popt-1.7-1
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs
> > > > dpkg-deb: building package `popt' in
>`/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
> > > > ln -sf
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
>/sw/fink/debs/
> > > > Writing control file...
> > > > Writing shlibs file...
> > > > dpkg-deb -b root-popt-shlibs-1.7-1
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs
> > > > dpkg-deb: building package `popt-shlibs' in
>`/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
> > > > ln -sf
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> /sw/fink/debs/
> > > > rm -rf /sw/src/root-popt-shlibs-1.7-1
> > > > rm -rf /sw/src/root-popt-1.7-1
> > > > dpkg -i
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> > > > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (--install):
> > > > files list file for package `libgnomeui2-dev' contains empty filename
> > > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > >
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> > > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > > > ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> > > > Failed: can't batch-install packages:
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt-shlibs_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/popt_1.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > The error about libgnomeui2-dev having an empty filename thwarts the
> > > > installation of any package. I've tried removing libgnomeui2 and
> > > > reinstalling it from scratch, but the same error is printed during the
> > > > attempt to remove. For example,
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > $ sudo dpkg -r --force-all libgnomeui2-dev
> > > > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing libgnomeui2-dev (--remove):
> > > > files list file for package `libgnomeui2-dev' contains empty filename
> > > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > > libgnomeui2-dev
> > > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on how I can get past this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > --------------------------------------
> > > > Christopher A. Smith Arlington, VA USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
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