On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems
I guerss you are using unstable.
> to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base.
> I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with
> no joy. Below is a typical example:
>
> root@mycomputer:/home/gary# aptitude purge doc-base
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> doc-base{p}
Did you check our BTS?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648936
This looks like one you hit.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 504 kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> (Reading database ... 297009 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing doc-base ...
Now calling
/var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.prerm
> cannot find install-docs on path
This is the problem.
If I were you, I will try following as work around. But before doing
this, check all discussion on the above mentioned BTS. There may be
better ways.
You should see in /var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.prerm:
case "$1" in
remove)
remove_all_docs
;;
upgrade)
;;
failed-upgrade)
# Prepare to upgrade from version $2 of this package TO THIS VERSION.
# This is only used if the old version's prerm couldn't handle it,
# and returned non-zero. (Fix old prerm bugs here.)
;;
esac
Edit this to be:
case "$1" in
remove)
true
;;
upgrade)
;;
failed-upgrade)
# Prepare to upgrade from version $2 of this package TO THIS VERSION.
# This is only used if the old version's prerm couldn't handle it,
# and returned non-zero. (Fix old prerm bugs here.)
;;
esac
and try removing this again. This is just work around. If there are
other issues, please work around issues.
I think by installing newer version of doc-base, this should fix this.
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