Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > Robert T Wyatt wrote: >> Martin Costabel wrote: >> >>> Robert T Wyatt wrote: >>> [] >>> >>>> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. >>>> install-info(/sw/share/info/accounting.info): unable to determine >>>> description for `dir' entry - giving up >>>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing acct (--configure): >>>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >>>> >>> This account.info file from acct is indeed rotten. Looking at cvs >>> logs, it seems to me that this package has been dead since May 2003 >>> in the days of 10.2, but for some reason the corpse hasn't been >>> buried but carried over to all subsequent Fink releases. I wonder if >>> any of those who copied and renamed its info file in the CVS >>> repository ever tried to install it. >>> >> >> >> > You'll have to go to the dpkg level: fink is even blinder to partial > package installs than is apt-get. "sudo dpkg --purge acct" should do it
Thanks! I think that worked. I also used it on clamav to try to get rid of its daemon configuration files. I'll know it worked if I quit getting log errors that my virus engine is out of date even though I have the current binary MacOsX package running. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
