Can I get some help with this? Is it illegal to have two conffiles hardlinked to each other? It unpacks them to their new names, as best I can tell, and then fails to make the link.
I'm going to remove the hardlink anyway, since this affects upgrades. ----- Forwarded message from Alan James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:23:18 +0000 From: Alan James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#129807: wont upgrade from version in pototo To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Alan James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: reportbug 1.41.14213 Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.2.20020112a-1 Severity: important A dist-upgrade from ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 to 5.2.20020112a-1 failed horribly. Here is the error message: Unpacking replacement ncurses-base ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.2.20020112a-1_all.deb (--unpack): error creating hard link `./etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-m': No such file or directory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.2.20020112a-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The workaround is to upgrade to ncurses-base 5.2.20010318-3 first. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pingu 2.2.20RAID #3 Tue Dec 11 17:34:43 GMT 2001 i686 unknown Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
