reassign 27663 linuxconf thanks Runo Førrisdahl wrote: > Farris: ~/install# dpkg -i linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 62852 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking linuxconf (from linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/rc', which is also in package sysvinit > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb
This is a bug in linuxconf. If it also provides an init.d/rc method it has to use dpkg-divert (or update-alternatives, currently not supported). To the maintainer: Please take a look at the file-rc package which handles this situation well. Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth