MM's install-info problem {was "still no SAS"}
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Jul 18 18:04:39 CEST 2008
>>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>> on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:36 -0500 writes:
DE> On 17 July 2008 at 08:43, Martin Maechler wrote:
DE> | >>>>> "DS" == Dale Steele <dsteele at lifespan.org>
DE> | >>>>> on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:10:58 -0400 writes:
DE> |
DE> | DS> I'm a neophyte, but did just notice that when I run the
DE> | DS> ess version installed from CRAN:
DE> |
DE> | DS> deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu
DE> | DS> hardy/
DE> |
DE> | DS> that there is a missing '/' in 'etcess' when I do M-x
DE> | DS> SAS
DE> |
DE> | DS> I get the message... ESS [SAS(SAS):
DE> | DS> /usr/share/ess/etcess-sas-sh-command
DE> |
DE> |
DE> | Thank you Dale,
DE> |
DE> | that's exactly the problem I have mentioned in that other e-mail
DE> | to Dirk.
DE> | It's a problem in the current *.deb
DE> | and I've now found the culprit: debian/rules has explicitly set
DE> | the directory without a trailing '/'
DE> |
DE> | I have now changed that (svn rev 3916).
DE> | Dirk, could you build a new *.deb file for Dale to try?
DE> Smokes, how embarrassing. I should have caught that. My only lame excuse is
DE> that it was code from Camm's time as maintainer. Thanks for finding that!
DE> This now works thanks to Martin -- here is the prompt following M-x SAS:
DE> ESS [SAS(SAS): /usr/share/ess/etc/ess-sas-sh-command] starting data directory? ~/
DE> New test package is at
DE> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_5.3.8~svn3916M-1_all.deb
DE> Martin: Try it on Ubuntu; I still don't know why your install-info does not
DE> play nicely when mine always does (and Dale's too, seemingly).
The problem persists.
If this helps, I see the same problem also for the 'r-faq-info'
(R 2.7.1) package from CRAN
and that is even made ubuntu-specific :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Setting up r-doc-info (2.7.1-1hardy0) ...
install-info: No such file or directory for R-FAQ
dpkg: error processing r-doc-info (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
r-doc-info
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dirk, how can I find out the exact calling sequence with which
wajig / apt-get / dpkg / ....... call install-info ?
Martin
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