On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:51:45PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Sorry, I missed this one last week...
>
> ysabell:~# dpkg -i /disk/hda10/debs/xfree86-4.0/xutils_4.0.1-0phase1v18_i386.deb
> dpkg: considering removing rstart in favour of xutils ...
> dpkg: yes, will remove rstart in favour of xutils.
> dpkg: considering removing rstartd in favour of xutils ...
> dpkg: yes, will remove rstartd in favour of xutils.
> (Reading database ... 74345 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xutils (from .../xutils_4.0.1-0phase1v18_i386.deb) ...
> ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart exists and is not a symbolic link.
> The xutils package cannot be installed until this directory is removed.
> Aborting installation of xutils package.
> dpkg: error processing /disk/hda10/debs/xfree86-4.0/xutils_4.0.1-0phase1v18_i386.deb
>(--install):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: [: too many arguments
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /disk/hda10/debs/xfree86-4.0/xutils_4.0.1-0phase1v18_i386.deb
Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't have the rstart -> xutils migration
complete. I have fixed up the preinst, postinst, and postrm to handle this
correctly (and fixed the syntax error in the postrm).
The fix will be in phase1v20 or phase2v1, whichever actually comes next.
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