Re: mythweb 0.25.1-dmo1 won't install

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: mythweb 0.25.1-dmo1 won't install
"Mark Paulus" <mark.paulus@???> writes:

> I’m running a Debian wheezy system, and I’m trying to install mythplugins-0.25.1,
> and
>
> it won’t install.
>
> The error is:
>
> Setting up mythweb (0.25.1-dmo1) …
>
> mv: cannot stat ‘/usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/*’: No such file or directory
>
> dpkg: error processing mythweb (--configure):
>
> Here is the patch I created to fix this problem:
>
> --- mythweb.postinst.orig       2012-06-12 22:39:12.000000000 -0400

>
> +++ mythweb.postinst    2012-06-12 22:32:32.000000000 -0400

>
> @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@
>
>         fi

>
>         # Move Data to new location

>
> -       if [ ! -L /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data ]; then

>
> +       if [ -d /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data  -a ! -d  /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data ]; then
> +               cd /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb && ln -s /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data data
> +               chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb
> +       elif [ ! -L /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data ]; then
>                 mv /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/* /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data
>                 rmdir /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data
>                 cd /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb && ln -s /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data data


Bad patch.

/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data is always here as this directory is in the
package.

! -d /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data mean that data is a symlink and
this doing another symlink will fail.

Christian