Bug#489690: Opting out on installation of safe-rm breaks install process
Hi, Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008 schrieb Francois Marier: If there is no otherway to work around the possible bad behaviour please at least tell your users what to do, as I assume this package attracts rather inexperienced users due to the nature of the task. If I understand you correctly, you'd like to see a clearer debconf message. What do you think it should say instead of the current one? Hmm, I guess what I described is the only work around? Then maybe tell the user to stop installing safe-rm i.e. removing it and install it again later. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489690: Opting out on installation of safe-rm breaks install process
Am 13.07.2008 um 12:09 schrieb Christoph Burgmer: Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008 schrieb Francois Marier: If there is no otherway to work around the possible bad behaviour please at least tell your users what to do, as I assume this package attracts rather inexperienced users due to the nature of the task. If I understand you correctly, you'd like to see a clearer debconf message. What do you think it should say instead of the current one? IMO it is a bug in apt that it aborts the whole installation because of one failing preinst. It should upgrade the other packages and leave safe-rm alone. Hmm, I guess what I described is the only work around? Then maybe tell the user to stop installing safe-rm i.e. removing it and install it again later. Yes, that seems to be necessary, because something like aptitude install safe-rm will likely try to resolve broken dependencies which results in something like this: , | Entpacke Ersatz für safe-rm ... | Can't exec /bin/rm: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden at /usr/bin/rm line 159. | dpkg: Fehler beim Aufräumen: | Unterprozess rm cleanup gab den Fehlerwert 255 zurück | Can't exec /bin/rm: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden at /usr/bin/rm line 159. | dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.3.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack): | Unterprozess rm cleanup gab den Fehlerwert 255 zurück | Verarbeite Trigger für man-db ... | Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: | /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.3.1-6_i386.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | Ein Paket konnte nicht installiert werden. Versuche zu lösen: | Richte safe-rm ein (0.2-5) ... | Cleaning up after safe-rm 0.2-3... | Entferne »diversion of /bin/rm to /bin/rm.real by safe-rm« | Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig | Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut | Lese Status-Informationen ein... Fertig | Lese erweiterte Statusinformationen | Initialisiere Paketstatus... Fertig | Lese Task-Beschreibungen... Fertig ` This is what I got in a chroot after unsuccessful attempts to aptitude safe-upgrade (aborting the safe-rm installation) followed by aptitude install safe-rm (which wanted to fix broken gcc-4.3 dependencies). Yes, dpkg (more exactly dpkg-deb) runs rm itself. What a mess. :-( Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489690: Opting out on installation of safe-rm breaks install process
Package: safe-rm Version: 0.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #489690 Guys, I wanted to check safe-rm when installing the package with other updates. On installation time it told me to rather abort as it may leave my system without /bin/rm, so I selected yes as proposed. Then aptitude didn't commence installing packages. After starting the installation process twice or three times I finally suspected it was safe-rm which was stopping the whole process, and finally everything installs fine after I removed safe-rm from my updates. If there is no otherway to work around the possible bad behaviour please at least tell your users what to do, as I assume this package attracts rather inexperienced users due to the nature of the task. Best, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (PREEMPT) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages safe-rm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy safe-rm recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489690: Opting out on installation of safe-rm breaks install process
Hi Chris, If there is no otherway to work around the possible bad behaviour please at least tell your users what to do, as I assume this package attracts rather inexperienced users due to the nature of the task. If I understand you correctly, you'd like to see a clearer debconf message. What do you think it should say instead of the current one? Cheers, Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
