On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:43:24AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Unpacking replacement ncurses-base ... > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/terminfo/r': Directory not > empty > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/terminfo/E': Directory not > empty > Setting up ncurses-base (5.4-9) ... > > Sure enough... > > $ ls -Rl /etc/terminfo > /etc/terminfo/: > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 01:36 E > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159 Jul 16 14:26 README > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 01:36 r > > /etc/terminfo/E: > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 21 01:29 Eterm-color -> ../E/Eterm > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1805 May 27 2004 Eterm-color.dpkg-new > > /etc/terminfo/r: > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 21 01:29 rxvt-m -> ../r/rxvt-basic > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1597 May 27 2004 rxvt-m.dpkg-new > > I'm not crystal clear on what happened here. I don't recall ever > customizing those terminfo entries.
Well, dpkg thinks you did. Otherwise it wouldn't have left garbage around. Presumably this happened around the date on .dpkg-new. I couldn't reproduce it on either a sarge->unstable upgrade or a long-time unstable system, so I don't know what I can do about this... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
