[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Klecker) wrote on 16.06.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 23:52 -0700 1998-06-15, Adam P. Harris wrote: > >dpkg 17381 dpkg: please add > >--force-overwrite-inexistant-files and default to it ;) [143] (Klee > >Dienes and Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > I don't think this is really a bug, the first example shows an overlap > between two packages, and the second has two artificial packages both > containing /usr/doc/foobar, one is installed, the /usr/doc directory is > removed, and the other package is installed, dpkg complains about the > overlap. This bug has bitten me numerous times recently, and it is really hard to find out what is going on. I'd label it a pretty serious bug; I *think* what happens is that dpkg can't handle when a directory doesn't exist that it's database claims, and another package claims, too - but which wouldn't amount to a problem if the directory were there. But it may also be related to symlinks - in one case, I've seen it happen and found the directory in question was a symlink pointing to itself - some svgalib package. The only solution I've found is hand-modifying the database, which cannot possibly be a good solution. And in not one of those cases was it caused by me removing something by hand. Key points: extremely unobvious; extremely hard to fix manually; can be caused by normal dpkg usage => serious dpkg bug. MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
