Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 04:24:21PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:03:43PM -0700, Larry Lade wrote:
According to dpkg.log packages vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, vim-tiny,
vim-gtk, vim-gnome, vim-gui-common from 1:7.0-094+1 to 1:7.0-122+1, to 1:
7.0-152+1, to 1:7.0-158+1, to 1:7.0-164+1. The error messages about the
Russian manpage do not appear in that log. I can attach the log if you think
it would be useful.
The portion about upgrading to 1:7.0-164+1 may be, but I'm not very
hopeful.
I'm also seeing this on Ubuntu when upgrading from 1:7.0-122+1ubuntu1 to
1:7.0-164+1ubuntu1. I don't think the Ubuntu changes are relevant.
I'm starting to suspect this is cruft introduced by some other package some
time ago. I'm still perplexed where /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/ is coming
from, since I don't even have such a directory on my filesystem.
Up until 1:7.0-164+1, Vim (vim-common specifically) shipped man pages in
that directory. Every vim variant also setup alternatives links in the
various man page directories. In 1:7.0-164+1, we stopped shipping man
pages in /usr/share/man/ru.{UTF-8,KOI8-R}/man1 and moved the KOI8-R man
pages to /usr/share/man/ru/man1 based on another bug report that had
been filed against Vim a while ago.
What I suspected was happening was that when we setup the alternatives in
vim-$variant's postinst, it had problems with the ru.KOI8-R and ru.UTF-8
no longer being shipped. That doesn't seem to be the case though, at
least when I perform an upgrade. I'll try it in a fresh chroot later to
see if something about my normal environment is making things work when
they shouldn't. Otherwise, I'm at a loss as to why it's working for me
and not for other people.
It's got something to do with existing alternatives. I've attached my
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/view, which mentions ru.KOI8-R and ru.UTF-8.
Strangely, though, repeated 'dpkg --configure -a' invocations sort it
out, which suggests that one way to work around this would be to retry
each update-alternatives call once if it fails. Nasty, but perhaps
functional.
update-alternative does have code to discard obsolete slave links (look
for obsolete in /usr/sbin/update-alternatives). Perhaps there's some
way to get it to do that more competently?
In any case, this does feel like an update-alternatives bug as well,
even if you work around it in vim.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:40:46PM -0500, James Vega wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:11:50AM -0700, Larry Lade wrote: Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-164+1 Followup-For: Bug #399024 Confirmed. This bug appears in packages vim, vim-gnome, and vim-gtk. Note this bug also occurs when trying to REMOVE the packages in question. --Begin output-- Setting up vim (7.0-164+1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing vim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 This is interesting since the postinst script for 1:7.0-164+1 doesn't have ru.UTF-8 anywhere in it. I'm guessing this is because the previous versions did and we're only removing alternatives on prerm remove not prerm upgrade. I'll confirm this and should be able to get a new upload which fixes it this weekend. I'm unable to reproduce this problem. I've tried through both an aptitude upgrade and apt-get upgrade from 1:7.0-158+1 to 1:7.0-164+1. Do you know which version you were upgrading from when this happened? James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
Hi! I'm unable to reproduce this problem. I've tried through both an aptitude upgrade and apt-get upgrade from 1:7.0-158+1 to 1:7.0-164+1. Do you know which version you were upgrading from when this happened? I just encountered this bug while upgrading vim-full from 1:7.0-158+1 to current unstable (1:7.0-164+1). -- ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | || Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
Hi On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:23:59 -0500 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to reproduce this problem. I've tried through both an aptitude upgrade and apt-get upgrade from 1:7.0-158+1 to 1:7.0-164+1. Do you know which version you were upgrading from when this happened? Aptitude log shows following: [UPGRADE] vim 1:7.0-158+1 - 1:7.0-164+1 [UPGRADE] vim-common 1:7.0-158+1 - 1:7.0-164+1 [UPGRADE] vim-full 1:7.0-158+1 - 1:7.0-164+1 [UPGRADE] vim-gui-common 1:7.0-158+1 - 1:7.0-164+1 [UPGRADE] vim-runtime 1:7.0-158+1 - 1:7.0-164+1 After few times running configure, errors were disappearing - first time vim-full and vim failed, then only vim, which failed several times, and with today update even vim has configured... -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
According to dpkg.log packages vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, vim-tiny, vim-gtk, vim-gnome, vim-gui-common from 1:7.0-094+1 to 1:7.0-122+1, to 1: 7.0-152+1, to 1:7.0-158+1, to 1:7.0-164+1. The error messages about the Russian manpage do not appear in that log. I can attach the log if you think it would be useful. Synaptic's History tool oddly records no activity on these packages since 26 October (122 - 152 upgrade). I'm starting to suspect this is cruft introduced by some other package some time ago. I'm still perplexed where /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/ is coming from, since I don't even have such a directory on my filesystem. Hmm... a quick Google search indicates this path appearing in reports for Vim 7.0 on other bug tracking systems.
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:03:43PM -0700, Larry Lade wrote:
According to dpkg.log packages vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, vim-tiny,
vim-gtk, vim-gnome, vim-gui-common from 1:7.0-094+1 to 1:7.0-122+1, to 1:
7.0-152+1, to 1:7.0-158+1, to 1:7.0-164+1. The error messages about the
Russian manpage do not appear in that log. I can attach the log if you think
it would be useful.
The portion about upgrading to 1:7.0-164+1 may be, but I'm not very
hopeful.
Synaptic's History tool oddly records no activity on these packages since 26
October (122 - 152 upgrade).
I'm starting to suspect this is cruft introduced by some other package some
time ago. I'm still perplexed where /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/ is coming
from, since I don't even have such a directory on my filesystem.
Up until 1:7.0-164+1, Vim (vim-common specifically) shipped man pages in
that directory. Every vim variant also setup alternatives links in the
various man page directories. In 1:7.0-164+1, we stopped shipping man
pages in /usr/share/man/ru.{UTF-8,KOI8-R}/man1 and moved the KOI8-R man
pages to /usr/share/man/ru/man1 based on another bug report that had
been filed against Vim a while ago.
What I suspected was happening was that when we setup the alternatives in
vim-$variant's postinst, it had problems with the ru.KOI8-R and ru.UTF-8
no longer being shipped. That doesn't seem to be the case though, at
least when I perform an upgrade. I'll try it in a fresh chroot later to
see if something about my normal environment is making things work when
they shouldn't. Otherwise, I'm at a loss as to why it's working for me
and not for other people.
James
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-164+1 Followup-For: Bug #399024 Confirmed. This bug appears in packages vim, vim-gnome, and vim-gtk. Note this bug also occurs when trying to REMOVE the packages in question. --Begin output-- Setting up vim (7.0-164+1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing vim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up vim-gnome (7.0-164+1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing vim-gnome (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up vim-gtk (7.0-164+1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing vim-gtk (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 --End output-- -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-howard Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages vim depends on: ii libc62.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-23 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii vim-common 1:7.0-164+1 Vi IMproved - Common files ii vim-runtime 1:7.0-164+1 Vi IMproved - Runtime files vim recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:11:50AM -0700, Larry Lade wrote: Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-164+1 Followup-For: Bug #399024 Confirmed. This bug appears in packages vim, vim-gnome, and vim-gtk. Note this bug also occurs when trying to REMOVE the packages in question. --Begin output-- Setting up vim (7.0-164+1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing vim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 This is interesting since the postinst script for 1:7.0-164+1 doesn't have ru.UTF-8 anywhere in it. I'm guessing this is because the previous versions did and we're only removing alternatives on prerm remove not prerm upgrade. I'll confirm this and should be able to get a new upload which fixes it this weekend. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
I did a _re-install_ (remove failed with same error) of package vim-tiny. This bug appears to have disappeared on all packages since. Very strange... Perhaps this will provide a workaround for the time being.
Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory
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