rawhide report: 20060714 indent scriptlet error

[Jim Cornette]

Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On 16 8:54:S, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Also, there appears to be a problem with the newer kernels
>> reporting the right process ID numbers with these later kernels.
>> Maybe this problem is causing nash to consume all the cpu time
>> when updating the kernels. In any case, holding off on the kernel
>> updates is probably best until the kernel problem is pinpointed
>> and time allows for the corrections to be made. About updating
>> the kernel, I do not do large updates any longer if there is a
>> new kernel. I wait for the other programs to be applied and then
>> go through a smaller update for the kernel. Once bitten twice
>> shy.
>>
>> Jim
> 
>   Yes, that's what I've decided for updates with a new kernel, do 
> the kernel separately, and I have for the last two.  Just now I 
> checked for updates an there were 17, no kernel. 'yum update' was 
> successful, except for....
> 
>   Updating  : indent             ####################### [13/34]
> install-info: /usr/share/info/indent.info.gz: empty file
> error: %post(indent-2.2.9-13.fc6.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 
> 1   .... and there was no 'Cleanup' statement for  indent
> 
>   Then running the script to chk for dups.....
> 
>  # yumdups
> Duplicates were found:
> indent-2.2.9-12.3.1
> indent-2.2.9-13.fc6

That is the trouble with %post scriptlet failures. %post leaves trails 
and %pre only goes up to where it fails and does not install the rpm.

I avoided indent, m4, kdebase, gnome-vfs2 and a few other packages where 
there are dependency errors. It's good that you noticed the failure with 
indent and the scriptlet. Is there a bug report filed against this package?

Jim
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