Your message dated Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:49:01 -0700 (MST) with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#33719: apt: Using the --force option to dpkg can result in an unusable system has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Feb 1999 18:40:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 20584 invoked from network); 22 Feb 1999 18:40:09 -0000 Received: from dial202-148.canit.se (HELO canit.se) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 1999 18:40:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 2823 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 1999 17:40:16 -0000 Date: 22 Feb 1999 17:40:16 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: apt: Using the --force option to dpkg can result in an unusable system To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.1.7 Package: apt Version: 0.1.10 I recently upgraded a gnome-related package using dselect's apt method. When dpkg installed the package it said that it was overwriting /usr/lib/somegnomelibrary.so because the --force option was specified. This resulted in all older gnome programs that are linked to this library to stop working. I'd prefer a message stating that this package can't be installed because of these conflicting files. (Of cause, this was caused of a bug in the gnome packages, but packages can be buggy.) -- System Information Debian Release: slink Kernel Version: Linux lazarus 2.1.132 #23 Mon Feb 1 17:15:38 CET 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries hi libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-2 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version) --- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile) deb ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ --- End /etc/apt/sources.list From maor Wed Feb 24 03:20:35 1999 Received: (qmail 30765 invoked from network); 24 Feb 1999 09:20:34 -0000 Received: from murphy.debian.org (209.176.56.6) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 24 Feb 1999 09:20:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 1421 invoked by uid 38); 24 Feb 1999 09:20:18 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#33796: apt: dist-upgrade fails Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-To: [email protected] Resent-CC: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debian-PR-Message: report 33796 X-Debian-PR-Package: apt X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:49:50 +0100 (CET) From: Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.1.7 X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/1238 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: apt Version: 0.1.9 Doing apt-get dist-upgrade: [...] Preparing to replace libdb2 2.3.16-7 (using libdb2_2.4.14-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb2 ... Preparing to replace libg++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 (using libg++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libg++2.8 ... Selecting previously deselected package libjpeg62. E: Sub-process returned an error code You can find a script log in http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/hamm2slink Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported the same problem after unpacking strace, so I guess the problem is really in apt. Both reports, Michael's and mine are reported to debian-testing. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.1 Kernel Version: Linux rai16 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i686 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version) --- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile) deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US --- End /etc/apt/sources.list
