tags 576620 + patch
thanks
On 2010-04-06 04:11 +0200, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:36:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Preparing to replace cpio 2.10-1 (using .../cpio_2.11-1_powerpc.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement cpio ...
>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cpio_2.11-1_powerpc.deb
>> (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/info/dir.gz', which is also in package
>> ledger 0:2.6.2-2
>> =====
>>
>> It seems unlikely these files are fungible. One or both of these files
>> needs to be renamed in the Debian package to allow for installing both
>> packages simultaneously.
>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:36:10AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> Yeah, I'd say that's going to be ledger's fault -- or, at least, no less
>> than cpio's (or any other package).
>>
>> I guess I'm about to learn a lot more about info pages than I ever wanted
>> to...
>
> No, neither package should ship that file. Since this only occurs on certain
> architectures, there may be something funny going on with install-info on the
> buildds.
The condition for this bug to be triggered is that the install-info
package is installed in the build environment. In that case,
"make install" will write to debian/tmp/usr/share/info/dir.
Here is a patch to remove the compressed file after that happens:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- debian/rules~ 2010-03-11 14:04:02.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/rules 2010-04-06 11:34:09.847084344 +0200
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
gzip -9v debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$(package)/*
gzip -9v debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/*
gzip -9v debian/tmp/usr/share/info/*
+ rm -f debian/tmp/usr/share/info/dir.gz
install -m 644 debian/copyright debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$(package)/.
# Determine shared library dependencies
dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/bin/cpio debian/tmp/bin/mt-gnu
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Sven
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