Karsten Merker wrote: > I have just tried the current boot-floppies cvs on mipsel (DECstation). > Installation works for the most part, but debootstrap fails when > configuring the packages for the base system. dpkg outputs "Processing > was halted because there were to many errors".
I believe it is a bug in itself that dpkg stops when there are too many errors, but this is another story :-) > The problem is that install-info fails for many packages (i.e. tar, > findutils, grep, fileutils, libreadline4, diff, textutils, sed, > util-linux, gzip) and dpkg runs into a loop trying to configure > libreadline4, util-linux and fileutils until it stops with the > aforementioned message. > > install-info tells for all of these packages: > "install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory!" > > Is this a mips/mipsel specific problem or does it occur on other > architectures as well? It was a bug in base-files_2.2.15, but it's already fixed in base-files_3.0. It will be fixed in mips/mipsel as soon as base-files_3.0 is available for those architectures (since base-files is "Architecture: any"). This bug never propagated to woody, so if you use woody you should be safe. > The only thing possibly fitting to my problem is bug #2904 (which is from > 1996), saying that the error message is misleading and really means > "/usr/info/dir does not exist". > According to the FHS this would have to be /usr/share/info/dir now, but > this does not exist on a current system - I only have /usr/share/info > and in it the info pages, which works fine. Any ideas? I believed dpkg was ready for an install from scratch to have the dir file at /usr/share/info, but I was wrong. I apologize for the inconvenience. As a result, in woody the info system will have all the info files at /usr/share/info but the index `dir' file will still remain at /usr/info. [ As long as it works everybody should be happy ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
