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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Stuart.  We were working today on our parallel testing project and ran
> into a problem that postgresql-common was not installing in Lucid, when it
> had been doing fine just last week.  It turned out that this only happened
> with the new package you uploaded to the Launchpad PPA. When we specified
> the standard Lucid version, it was fine.

This was copied directly from pitti's backports
(https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql). I have tested it
under Lucid, and it installed fine for me. 'cannot be authenticated'
means you don't have the signing key installed? I would have thought
it would get resigned with the Launchpad PPA key when I copied it into
the Launchpad PPA...

I'm not sure what is going on. If you need to delete it, it only
affects me at the moment and I can easily recover by copying it back
from pitti's PPA.

> It fails like this:
>
> root@lptests:~# apt-get install postgresql-common
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  postgresql-common
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/135kB of archives.
> After this operation, 573kB of additional disk space will be used.
> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>  postgresql-common
> Install these packages without verification [y/N]? Y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-common.
> (Reading database ... 35183 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking postgresql-common (from .../postgresql-common_128~lucid_all.deb)
> ...
> Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/pg_config to /usr/bin/pg_config.libpq-dev by
> postgresql-common'
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>  failed to fstat previous diversions file: No such file or directory
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> That's the one from the PPA:
>
> root@lptests:~# apt-cache madison postgresql-common
> postgresql-common |  128~lucid |
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/launchpad/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
> postgresql-common | 106ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> lucid-updates/main Packages
> postgresql-common |        106 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> lucid/main Packages
>
> When we installed the one from Lucid, everything was fine:
>
> apt-get install postgresql-common=106ubuntu1
>
> Could you check into what is going on here, and fix it, or remove the
> package, or give us a longer term solution than the workaround we use above?
>  It looks like the problem might be trivial for a packager who understands
> diversions.  We don't right now.
>
> Thank you
>
> Gary



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Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>