On Sáu, 07 Giêng 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:30:17PM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: > > It's an easy fix to fix it, in the Makefile of the source, one line > > has bin where it should say sbin > > But in the debconf_0.2.65_all.deb there is a *file* named /user/sbin - it's > a shell script to be precise. And what the system is complaining about > is that it doesn't want to replace a directory with a file. I wound up > unpacking the deb into a temp directory, renaming the offending file, and > rebuilding the deb. I'm not sure if it worked correctly, but it worked well
Yes, the /usr/sbin file is one of two that should actually be in /usr/sbin, by changing the line in the Makefile, it creates the directory and when creating the deb file, places in it two files, dpkg-preconfig and dpkg-reconfigure. > enough to let me install debconf. And that meant I could install a > couple of things that had gotten stuck due to depending on debconf. You could just configure the unconfigured packages by running dpkg --configure --pending, but I'm unsure that by not installing those files whether or not that will affect other packages that depend on debconf. -- Ashley Clark