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[Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>
- To: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:20:35 +0200
- Subject: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage
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
2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript-x11
2008/04/13 22:27:51 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/preremove/ghostscript-x11.sh
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
2008/04/13 22:27:51 abnormal exit: exit code=2
2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for _update-info-dir
2008/04/13 22:27:51 Uninstalling ghostscript
unlink D:\/bin//gs-native.exe
2008/04/13 22:27:51 Uninstalling ghostscript-base
unlink D:\/bin//bdftops
:
:
2008/04/13 22:28:00 zsync
2008/04/13 22:28:00 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2008/04/13 22:28:14 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript.sh
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
2008/04/13 22:28:14 abnormal exit: exit code=2
2008/04/13 22:28:14 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript-x11.sh
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
2008/04/13 22:28:14 abnormal exit: exit code=2
2008/04/13 22:28:20 note: Installation Complete
2008/04/13 22:28:20 Ending cygwin install
What does this
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
mean ?
I can't even do the following anymore
> alternatives --display gs
> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
These are the two postinstall sripts for the native and the x11 version of
ghostscript:
------------------------------ ghostscript.sh ---------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr
bindir=${prefix}/bin
sbindir=${prefix}/sbin
${sbindir}/update-alternatives --install ${bindir}/gs gs ${bindir}/gs-native 10
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------ ghostscript-x11.sh -----------------------------
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr
bindir=${prefix}/bin
sbindir=${prefix}/sbin
${sbindir}/update-alternatives --install ${bindir}/gs gs ${bindir}/gs-x11 20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And these are the preremove scripts:
------------------------------ ghostscript.sh ---------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr
bindir=${prefix}/bin
sbindir=${prefix}/sbin
${sbindir}/update-alternatives --remove gs ${bindir}/gs-native
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------ ghostscript-x11.sh -----------------------------
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr
bindir=${prefix}/bin
sbindir=${prefix}/sbin
${sbindir}/update-alternatives --remove gs ${bindir}/gs-x11
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When I remove /var/lib/alternatives/gs and start from scratch I get:
12:09 AM [499]> rm /var/lib/alternatives/gs
vzell@vzell-de /tmp
12:09 AM [500]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20
vzell@vzell-de /tmp
12:10 AM [501]> update-alternatives --display gs
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
vzell@vzell-de /tmp
12:10 AM [502]> cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs
auto
/usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gs-x11
20
vzell@vzell-de /tmp
12:11 AM [505]> ls -lt /usr/bin/gs /etc/alternatives/gs /usr/bin/gs-x11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vzell admin 15 Apr 15 00:10 /etc/alternatives/gs -> /usr/bin/gs-x11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vzell admin 20 Apr 14 09:11 /usr/bin/gs -> /etc/alternatives/gs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vzell users 11212800 Apr 13 17:29 /usr/bin/gs-x11.exe*
vzell@vzell-de /tmp
I also found the following in the archives:
o http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00304.html
On my machine I get:
alternatives --display unison
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/unison
Hmmmmmmmm...
Ciao
Volker
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