Bug#290466: exim4-base: postinst fails on upgrade from 4.34-9

Andreas Metzler Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, 290466@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:56:06 +0100


On 2005-01-14 "Peter Rockai (mornfall)" <mornfall@kalyxo.org> wrote:
[...]
> + getent passwd Debian-exim
> + install -d -oDebian-exim -gadm -m2750 /var/log/exim4
> mkdir: invalid option -- o

It looks like your "install" is busted. You probably have a
non-(Debian)-standard install in /usr/local/bin/, Debian's install(1)
does not use mkdir(1) to generate directories.
                cu andreas
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