Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66257
postinstall script error whe /etc/sgml is empty
Last modified: 2016-02-09 20:31:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: When no files match the wildcard, the for loop is run once with the literal string /etc/sgml/*-docbook-*.cat as its parameter. This creates a file called *-docbook-*.cat, which makes things messy later on. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install docbook-style-dsssl before anything else puts a file in /etc/sgml 2.see the /etc/sgml/*-docbook-*.cat file 3. Actual Results: /etc/sgml/*-docbook-*.cat Expected Results: no /etc/sgml/*-docbook-*.cat Additional info:
There are prereqs in place to prevent this. Had you removed /etc/sgml or something?
This problem showed up while bootstrapping an 8.0 distro. Perhaps some prereq was satisfied by an older package (the buildroot was bootstrapped from from 7.2). Or perhaps it's just screwy because it's a buildroot and not an actual installation.
It prereqs docbook-dtd-sgml though, which has always populated /etc/sgml as far as I can recall. I think this must have been --nodeps'd in the build root.