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Re: cross-install problems (again)



On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 06:03:14AM +0200, Guido Casiraghi wrote:
> this is the 2nd time that I try to run cross-install under a debian 2.1.
> but dpkg gave me unusual errors again.

Sorry about the mess. There were some consecutive changes necessary and
somehow I managed not to be able to sync them with the cross-install file. I
believe all problems are resolved with the following script:

http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/cross-install
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/native-install

Unfortunately, I was a little sloppy with the version numbers, so please
refetch these files to be sure to get the latest version.

> in my install.log there are a lot of
> errors like this one:
> -----------
> dpkg-deb: building package `ae' in `temp_build/ae.deb'.
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386)
> Selecting previously deselected package ae.
> (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
> -----------
> 
> it seems to me that someone told that the third line is due to some bug...

No, those are not harmful, because we use --force-architecture. They appear
only because we are installing from a non-Hurd system.

> anyway, cross-install also prints these errors on console:
> 
> ---------------
> dpkg did return unusual messages, please investigate:
> 
> dpkg: error processing temp_build/hurd.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/etc/motd', which is also in package base-files
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> temp_build/hurd.deb
> ---------------
> 
> the error about /etc/motd was there also during the first installation. i'm
> not sure about the other.

Yeah, two problems here. The "dpkg-hurd" invocations in the script are
missing "--force-overwrite" and the grep is missing the "trying to
overwrite". Both are fixed in the latest version of the script.

Alternatively, you could try hurd-19990725 package, which does not contain
/etc/motd anymore.

Thanks,
Marcus

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