upgrade of util-linux still fails in breezy

Hi Christoph,

have you tried to do a apt-get dist-upgrade yet? If dpkg happens to be 
unpacked before util-linux, util-linux *might* update w.o. problems.

If this doesn't work, you could comment out the install-info command from 
prerm and postinst under

/var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.prerm 
and
/var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst

and redo the upgrade.
After the upgrade you can then install the missing info-page by manually 
runinng "install-info --quiet --section [...]", as in the postinst.

hth,
	Stefan.


Am Montag 17 Oktober 2005 12:29 schrieb Christoph Bier:
> Hi all,
>
> as already posted on this and the users list installation of gv and
> wget and upgrade of util-linux failed on hoary. I filed bug reports
> and wrote this mail (<di2r6l$2ge$1 at sea.gmane.org>) but didn't get
> any answer (the bugs don't appear on http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/). I
> didn't had the time to investigate further and wanted to await the
> Breezy release. But upgrade of util-linux still fails! I did the
> following:
>
> s/hoary/breezy/ in /etc/apt/sources.list
> sudo apt-get update
> script /root/hoary-breezy-upgrade-20051017.txt
> apt-get upgrade util-linux
> (unresolved dependencies)
> apt-get install -f
> ...
> (Reading database ... 87752 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12p-2ubuntu2 (using
> .../util-linux_2.12p-6ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12p-6ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> install-info: unrecognized option `--description=System V
> interprocess communication facilities'
>         Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options.
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12p-6ubuntu5_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Please help me on this topic! I couldn't do any security updates on
> my laptop for weeks because of util-linux! And I really miss wget
> and gv ... but this is another topic. But I want to upgrade to
> breezy and I guess this is impossible with the failure of util-linux
> upgrades. I did not try and can not make any experiments at the moment.
>
> Regards,
>       Christoph
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