Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> Thanks, will you roll a new version ? >> > try test version 1.3.30c-1. Works fine. Thanks Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Thanks, will you roll a new version ? try test version 1.3.30c-1. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to flag this for the sake of completeness Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > alternatives --display gs > path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs I have tried to reinstall ghostscrip* in a clean way. Since uninstalling does not remove /etc/postinstall/ghostscript*.done, /etc/prerem

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Tim
Charles Wilson cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes: > > I just tried again: > > > > I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs. > > > > 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 > > 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> This is the relevant code block in alternatives.c where the above >> file gets read by the function readConfig (buf should hold the >> contents of the above file after the do loop): >> curBufSz = READCONFIG_BUF_INITIALSZ;

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: This is the relevant code block in alternatives.c where the above file gets read by the function readConfig (buf should hold the contents of the above file after the do loop): curBufSz = READCONFIG_BUF_INITIALSZ; totalBytesRead = 0; numBytesRead = 0; buf

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > I don't know what else to do here. Unless I can reproduce it, I can't > debug it. The only possibility I can think of is this: are you > actually using alternatives-1.3.29a-1, or some older version? The > previous version had a serious bug in a routi

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I just tried again: I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs. 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> What does this >> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs >> mean ? > Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program > expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: What does this path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs mean ? Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the target program. e.g. line = parseLine(&bufp); while (l

[Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi This is from the setup run after updating to the latest ghostscript package: 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript 2008/04/13 22:27:51 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/preremove/ghostscript.sh 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript-base 2008/04/1