Re: [Fink-devel] openmotif4-2.3.4-4 fails to install on 10.7

[Jack H. <ho...@br...>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:10:24PM -0400, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> openmotif4-2.3.4-4 fails to install with this error during the deb  
> unpack phase:
>
> Preparing to replace openmotif4 2.3.4-4 (using  
> .../openmotif4_2.3.4-4_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement openmotif4 ...
> Setting up openmotif4 (2.3.4-4) ...
> Clearing dependency_libs of .la files being installed
> update-alternatives: error: alternative path  
> /sw/share/man/man3/Object.3.openmotif doesn't exist
> dpkg: error processing openmotif4 (--install):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  openmotif4
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
>
> The built deb file has
>
> -rw-r--r-- root/admin     2452 2013-07-02 17:53 ./sw/share/man/man3/Object.3
>
> but it was never 'versioned' during InstallScript.
>
> However, I'm not sure why the file even needs to be under the control of  
> update-alternatives. The only instances of man3/Object.3 that I could  
> find in my 10.7 buildworld debs are in lesstif, openmotif3 and  
> openmotif4, all of which already C/R with each other.  The use of u-a  
> seems to date back to the 10.4-Transitional days. Is this still  
> relevant, or does man3/Object.3 exist in another newer package?

This seems to go all the way back to the 10.2 stable tree and appears
to be due to overlap with lesstif and openmotif. Are you installing
on a machine with lesstif installed? I don't normally have lesstif
installed and have never seen this failure moving back and forth
between openmotif3 and openmotif4. I would be more worried about why
update-alternatives is breaking on your machine.
          Jack

>
> Hanspeter