unable to install tetex-extra, preinst failure

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:33:31 +0100
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: unable to install tetex-extra, preinst failure

Package: tetex-extra
Version: 1.0.2+20021025-7
Severity: grave

Hello,

I cannot install tetex-extra because its preinst shows weird md5sum
problems (see below). I have been told that may be caused by obsolete coreutils,
however this is a up-to-date Sid system (installed with Slink or so and
dist-upgraded from then). Tetex-extra may have been installed and then
deinstalled in the past, I don't remember.

$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  tetex-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tetex-extra
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/10.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 43.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 205050 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb) ...
/etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams: md5sum not known. Exiting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ls -la /etc/texmf/dvips/config.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 May 23 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint

md5sum /etc/texmf/dvips/config.*
df69e80e8157afde30550f21317bbd6d /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams
32c36b063268c5e45819fe8114ce3cf0 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old
0ef9213edceaaba3185a79e5946c8411 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz
b9c14f2d2e3923372e9067e2e1ee47b5 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old
363c5ef43576af28b14330ae78ed5de8 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm
68d23ead2901dddbc1779c905806b783 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old
949213a1865415e6f5199188ee57419e /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz
830f16e1e39c67b1c665a8b09824a7b4 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old
d8fe8cd35cf178202ee13f64c66dd2d9 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked t...

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:44:54 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#347355: unable to install tetex-extra, preinst failure

severity 347355 important
found 347355 3.0-11
stop

Eduard Bloch <email address hidden> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 1.0.2+20021025-7
> Severity: grave
>
> Hello,
>
> I cannot install tetex-extra because its preinst shows weird md5sum
> problems (see below). I have been told that may be caused by obsolete cor=
eutils,
> however this is a up-to-date Sid system (installed with Slink or so and
> dist-upgraded from then). Tetex-extra may have been installed and then
> deinstalled in the past, I don't remember.

Obviously it had its conffiles on the system, since the reported version
of tetex-extra is from oldstable (woody). Although this case does not
by the letter fall under the "we don't support upgrades from n to >=3Dn+2",
I think the case is really rare, and doesn't warrant a grave severity.

> Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb) ...
> /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams: md5sum not known. Exiting
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb=
 (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

I'll add the woody md5sum of this file and its sisters to the
known-md5sums list.

The workaround would be to purge tetex-extra.

Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:18:07 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#347355: unable to install tetex-extra, preinst failure

tags 347355 pending
thanks

Frank K=FCster <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'll add the woody md5sum of this file and its sisters to the
> known-md5sums list.

I've tested the fix that I already put in the repository, and it works
now.=20

Thank you, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer

Fixed in version tetex-base/3.0-12 by Frank Küster <email address hidden>.

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