Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.6.dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
I receive following output during gawk installation:
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Setting up gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-3) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative nawk can't be slave of awk: it is a
master alternative.
dpkg: error processing gawk (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geda-gnetlist:
geda-gnetlist depends on gawk; however:
Package gawk is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing geda-gnetlist (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geda:
geda depends on geda-gnetlist; however:
Package geda-gnetlist is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing geda (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gawk
geda-gnetlist
geda
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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This probably comes from some restructuring in the alternatives system.
Removing the nawk references in debian/postinst let me install without errors.
However, I am not sure if this is the correct solution.
meillo
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
gawk recommends no packages.
gawk suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- debian/postinst 2009-06-18 22:07:56.000000000 +0200
+++ ../../gawk-3.1.6.dfsg/debian/postinst 2009-06-18 21:53:31.000000000
+0200
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/sh -e
update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/awk awk /usr/bin/gawk 10 \
- --slave /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1.gz awk.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz \
- --slave /usr/bin/nawk nawk /usr/bin/gawk \
- --slave /usr/share/man/man1/nawk.1.gz nawk.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz
-for badlink in /usr/man/man1/awk.1 /usr/man/man1/nawk.1; do
+ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1.gz awk.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz
+for badlink in /usr/man/man1/awk.1; do
if [ -L $badlink ]; then
if ! ls -l $(ls -l $badlink | cut -d">" -f2) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
rm -f $badlink; fi; fi; done
