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[Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>]

On Sunday 28 of December 2008 12:46:26 Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> George Sherwood wrote:
> > Looks like some error has been introduced to devel sorcery that causes
> > building of tar to fail with this error:
> >
> > Preparing to install tar
> > install-info: No such file or directory for tar
> > Dispel of tar failed!
> > Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/tar-1.20.bz2
> >
> > Spells that encountered problems:
> > ---------------------------------
> > tar (post_remove)   tar (pre_install)
> >
> > Vlad updated tar to 1.21 today which isn't a problem, but if you are
> > using devel sorcery you need to downgrade to test to complete the build
> > for now.  Or at least copy /bin/tar somewhere safe. :)
>
> I got this same error when I tried to cast mysql, too. Something funky
> happened with sorcery lately.
Nothing funky happened to Sorcery, it just became more strict. There were 
always install-info errors (you get them with test sorcery too), but now they 
are fatal if they cause POST_REMOVE (or PRE_REMOVE) to fail.
Like I said before, consider this an incentive to finally fix these long 
standing bugs. The candidates are easy to find, the fix pretty simple (just 
remember to add a repair file) and Vlad was already working on one for tar, 
so you should also have a reference soon.

LP
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