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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.94-1
Upgrading from version 5.2.1-2.1 fails. A transcript follows. System is
testing/etch.
# apt-get install coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
coreutils
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3027kB of archives.
After unpacking 598kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 173353 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 5.2.1-2.1 (using
.../coreutils_5.94-1_i386.deb) ...
Removing `local diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz
to /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
`/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz' with
different file `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.94-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.94-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1053 2005-09-04 02:32
/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1053 2005-09-04 02:32
/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
It looks like there was actually a read-only filesystem in one case,
which I would expect to cause problems. In the other case I think that
the latest versions of coreutils should take care of the upgrade issue.
Mike Stone
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