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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Warning about 0.9.1 ISO
  • Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:20:42 -0500

The other solution is easy, not use gettext for wget. It is now an
optional_depends.

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 08:32, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I'm in the process of setting up a new SMGL system from the 0.9.1 ISO.
> Immediately upon rebooting from the hard disk (as fresh an installation you
> can have), I switched to the test grimoire and attempted to "sorcery
> system-update". Unfortunately this suffered the wget+gettext bug
> previously discussed on this mailing list.
>
> To summarize, gettext was upgraded and triggered a cast on wget, which
> failed because wget tried to download its source and couldn't: the gettext
> library it was linked to (version 2) was no longer present. The fix was to
> symlink the version 2 library to the new version 3, then "summon wget",
> then delete the symlink, then "cast -c wget". Once wget is restored,
> everything is back to normal.
>
> I haven't filed a bug for this since it's a known issue, and in the case
> of the ISO the fix is extremely simple: include wget linked to the newer
> version 3 gettext library on the ISO. This may require pulling the newer
> gettext into stable though, I don't know.
>
> Happy SMGLing!
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com
>
>
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