On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports
> 'aptitude install -f' is not able to fix the problem and seems to block > when trying to remove the gs-common package. See attachment file > 3_dist-upgrade_all_messages, do a search with pattern 'Removing > gs-common'. > Removing gs-common ... > Can't locate File/Copy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/defoma-app line 7. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/defoma-app line 7. > dpkg: error processing gs-common (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > gs-common > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is pretty much #495703, the prerm script of the etch gs-common package breaks if the perl packages are being upgraded and just part of them are unpacked. It was thought fixed by making the lenny gs-common prerm script survive 'failed-upgrade', but I see gs-common can end up removed, not upgraded, when doing the dist-upgrade. This presumably happens because the lenny ghostscript conflicts with gs-common (<< 8.62), and as gs-common was originally pulled in as an automatic dependency, aptitude thinks it's best to just remove it. Suggest cloning/reassigning to ghostscript. Making the lenny ghostscript depend on the lenny gs-common might fix this, except that would create a circular dependency. Maybe somebody can come up with something better. Starting with a minimal Etch chroot: # apt-get -y install gs-common devscripts wget # sed -i s/etch/lenny/ /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # dget ghostscript # dget perl-modules # dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_amd64.deb -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
