In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason G unthorpe writes: > >On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > >> - allow for some form of --cont-on-error... I tried to install mime-support >> (upgrade, actually) and it failed because of an a2ps conflict. It then >> exited and didn't configure the remaining upgraded packages it had >> downloaded. I ran dpkg --pending --configure manually and that worked fine. > >Erm, conflict? Are you sure it wasn't a post-inst failure? dpkg should not >report a conflict when trying to install.. > Not sure when exactly it was... but the conflict was over the file /usr/bin/convert which is in both a2ps and in mime-support. Should be easy to reproduce if you want to check it out... after I removed a2ps, mime-support installed fine.
Nils.
