to debian developers: workaround installation problem with Debian-2.0 beta
debian developers:
My problem with installing the beta version of Debian 2.0 seems to be
centered around the /usr/sbin/install-info script. This script is
included in the dpkg package. It seems that every time this script is
called from a pre or post installation or removal script of a package
(which is not always depending on the package), an error occurs with
respect to the the /usr/info/dir.lock file. This file being present
causes errors in the install-info script and the remaining
installation of the package.
My workaround was to create a dummy install-info script that simply
does nothing. I will not get info files installed, but I don't need
them on this print-server machine.
This is not ideal, but I don't know enough about the error to report
it as a bug (how this problem came up in the first place?).
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