On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > tags 491457 +unreproducible > thanks > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:37:55AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: bash-completion > > Version: 20080705 > > > I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest > > bash-completion, with: > > > > > sudo apt-get install bash > > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > bash-completion > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > bash-completion > > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. > > > Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_20080705_all.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > One of them seemed to fix itself when I did a purge of > > bash_completion, and then reinstalled the same latest version in sid. > > The other hasn't. I just tracked it down to it still being listed as > > a conffile in /var/lib/dpkg/status for the bash package. Should there > > be a method in one of the packages to clear the conffile status from > > the bash package and let bash-completion take it over? > > There is no way to clear the conffile status of the file, though dpkg > recognises that the conffile status is obsolete when I try to install > bash-completion when latest bash is installed which succeeds without any > errors.
Maybe related to me having manually edited bash_completion in the past. > Does /var/lib/dpkg/bash.conffiles and /var/lib/dpkg/bash.list or one of > them include /etc/bash_completion? I ended up manually removing bash_completion and reinstalling both bash and bash_completion so can't test this now. > Apparently something went wrong before the above installation try as it > mentions '81 not fully installed or removed.', might that be related? That would be because I was trying repeatedly to convince it to install bash-completion. Apt thinks there is no conflict, upgrades bash, tries to upgrade bash-completion, causing dpkg to barf, causing it to recognise that it hasn't been fully installed or removed next time. -- TimC MacOSX: Sort of like a pedigree persian cat. Very sleek, very sexy, but a little too prone to going cross-eyed, biting you on your thumb and then throwing up on your trousers. -- Jim in ASR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
