Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.4.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
when an MA: same package contains a conffile, re-installing it causes dpkg to error out, complaining that the content of the conffile differs between the architectures - even though it does not. To reproduce (on current testing): I assume an amd64 system with i386 as foreign architecture. libpam- modules:amd64 is installed, libpam-modules:i386 is not. $ sudo dpkg --install libpam-modules_1.1.3-7.1_i386.deb (working all right - the dependencies must already be installed) $ sudo dpkg --install libpam-modules_1.1.3-7.1_amd64.deb libpam- modules_1.1.3-7.1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 227374 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libpam-modules:amd64 1.1.3-7.1 (using libpam- modules_1.1.3-7.1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpam-modules:amd64 ... Preparing to replace libpam-modules:i386 1.1.3-7.1 (using libpam- modules_1.1.3-7.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpam-modules:i386 ... dpkg: error processing libpam-modules_1.1.3-7.1_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite shared '/etc/security/limits.conf', which is different from other instances of package libpam-modules:i386 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Setting up libpam-modules:amd64 (1.1.3-7.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: libpam-modules_1.1.3-7.1_i386.deb Interesting enough, if I reinstall just one of the two packages, things work fine. Only if I tell dpkg to reinstall both architectures at the same time, above error shows up. This is not specific to libpam-modules (for which I reported this as bug [1]), it also happens in my local multiarched version of libxvmc [2], which has a conffile as well. Kind regards, Ralf [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684703 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640499 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-3 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii tar 1.26-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.7.2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
