tags 301449 + sarge thanks hi :)
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:13:22PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Unfortunately, this is to confirm that the problem still exists with > the latest libboost. So apparently it was the 2 upgrades that fixed > it. > > I just upgraded another system from 1.31.0-9 directly to 1.32.0-4. > Once again, there are missing files, including at least the 2 I > mentioned previously. this bug is due to the broken way /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/HTML/boost was created on the filesystem. it has been fixed in package 1.32.0-4, bug #290333 and others merged with it. please read those bug reports for the complete story. bug explanation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ package libboost-doc used to install some stuff under $DOC/HTML/boost/ [0]. dpkg then known this stuff in dir $DOC/HTML/boost/ was of package libboost-doc. problem was that libboost-doc postinst script removed $DOC/HTML/boost/ and made it a symlink to /usr/include/boost. now, when dpkg removed libboost-doc's files to replace them with the new ones, it instead removed those in /usr/include/boost, owned by some other boost package. if that package was not going to be re-installed, they were then definitively removed and resulted missing. please note that which files and which packages were involved depended by the order of package upgrade! since 1.32.0-4 the symlink is created in the correct way. this guarantees the upgrade bug is not present in *future* (>= 1.32.0-4) version upgrades but nothing can be done for the past versions ones. this explanation does not explain why the bug is seen only between 1.31.0 <-> 1.32.0 transition and why reinstalling the same version packages works around it. i suppose only to not know all the details required to explain them. cheers domenico [0] $DOC is /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/ -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
