Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:19 +0200, J�r�me Marant wrote: > > >> I experienced some problems with dpkg from experimental: >> >> - It seems to break type-handling. The following command >> returns an empty string instead of an arch list: >> >> $ type-handling any linux-gnu >> > This is likely a bug in type-handling, or at least a lack of support for > the changes in dpkg 1.13; at a guess, it either dislikes the > archtable->ostable/cputable split or the fact that dpkg-architecture > returns "linux-gnu" instead of "linux" for DEB_*_GNU_SYSTEM.
OK, thanks. >> - I had problems downgrading dpkg to the unstable version because >> of the md5sum* diversions. I noticed that in the >> /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file, "coreutils" had been replaced >> by the ':' character. I suspect it did happen during the >> attempt to downgrade. >> > Hmm, I hadn't yet put any thought into removing the diversion on > uninstall or downgrade ... so I'm not surprised it broke, So diversions do not work properly across downgraded, this is good to know. Cheers, -- J�r�me Marant http://marant.org
