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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> 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.

Why is this new restriction necessary, anyway? To me it seems all it 
does is create more requirements for spell writers when they (us) have a 
lot of things to take into account already.

I have to admit, our spells aren't in any way simple anymore. Everything 
seem to become more and more complex as time goes by. There's a limit to 
what you can do with bash, and I'm thinking about trying to write a 
completely new kind of package manager.

I'm a currently very frustrated about gnupg also failing with devel 
sorcery. I wonder how many others we will have to screw around with now.


Preparing to install gnupg
install-info: No such file or directory for gpg
install-info: No such file or directory for gpgv
Dispel of gnupg failed!
Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/gnupg-1.4.9.bz2

Spells that encountered problems:
---------------------------------
gnupg (post_remove)     gnupg (pre_install)


Juuso