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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