[Arm-netbook] Fwd: bug on emdebian apt-get upgrade (install-info error)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hi folks, this from neil williams, if anyone's going to try
debian-installer soon could they add emdebian.org lenny to
/etc/apt/sources.list and then do "apt-get upgrade" and then see if
grip-config is listed to be installed, as neil shows?

tia,

l.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Neil Williams <codehelp at debian.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: bug on emdebian apt-get upgrade (install-info error)
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton at googlemail.com>


On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:54:57 +0000
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton at googlemail.com> wrote:

> would send this on normal bugreport places but don't know where!  i
> can confirm, replicated a second time, that "apt-get upgrade" on
> vanilla debian/lenny armel gives an error on coreutils due to
> /usr/sbin/install-info failing to install
> /usr/share/info/coreutils.info
>
> which is fairly serious, as it terminates the install and leaves
> things in a complete mess.

Something is coming to light now from other tests:

Please check if grip-config is getting installed - something is going
wrong with that stage which hasn't happened before. Please report back
on which version of grip-config is listed and whether installing that
fixes the problems.

Sounds like a change in the debian-installer not picking up
grip-config. This problem is fixed for Squeeze but the only way to fix
it in Lenny is to ensure that grip-config gets unpacked before other
packages are configured. This used to be done by debian-installer
pre-seeding - could be that this stage is bust, again.

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