Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:27:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: jon@witchspace.com Subject: Re: [Q] Mergemaster problem Message-ID: <200107152327.f6FNRgA17282@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <3B50671A.B8FBBD7B@witchspace.com> References: <3B50671A.B8FBBD7B@witchspace.com>
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In article <3B50671A.B8FBBD7B@witchspace.com>,
Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> wrote:
> I've just upgraded my machine to a more recent version
> of -stable. Everything went swimmingly until I ran
> mergemaster...whenever I try to install an updated file
> I get an error, eg.
>
> *** Problem installing ./etc/defaults/pccard.conf, it will remain to
> merge by hand
This bug appears to have been introduced in revision 1.6.2.7, which
added "&& [ -f "${1}" ] && rm "${1}"" onto the invocations of
"install", like this:
install -m "${FILE_MODE}" "${1}" "${DESTDIR}${INSTALL_DIR}" &&
[ -f "${1}" ] && rm "${1}"
Since install is not given the "-c" option, it deletes the source copy
of the file. That causes the ``[ -f "${1}" ]'' to fail, so it appears
that the installation failed. I reported this to the maintainer
today.
Don't worry about it -- the files are actually installed despite the
error messages.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa
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