post-install script not run on upgrade

[Pete]

I just recently upgraded to beta1. I needed to run 'man', and it failed because it couldn't find the utilities it needed.

Turned out that 'man.conf' had links pointing through a specific (and wrong!) package version. It had (correctly) not been replaced by the updated version, but the package has a post-install script that is supposed to fix the links. I unpacked the man hpkg, and ran the script manually, and it did exactly as it should. So apparently it was not run when I upgraded.

(I notice that the man.conf in my 4-year old partition also has package-specific links, but they match the version in this case, and in fact there is no post-install script there.)

[waddlesplash]

Was the version you upgraded from 4 years old? If so, it would not have had hrev49296, so this was already fixed in 2015.

[Pete]

No, the previous version was hrev51670 from a couple of years back.

Looking at hrev49296, I see it introduced queuing of scripts, but in fact I see a queued-scripts folder in the administrative directory, and it (still!) contains a bunch of scripts, including the man one... from 2017 when I installed 51670! And I gather from 49296 that the scripts are supposed to be deleted, which didn't happen either! Wouldn't the queuing be handled by the rebooted, new, system anyway?

Something ain't workin'...