On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:18:41PM +0100, Hilko Bengen wrote: > While trying to run libguestfs tests after building with > "--enable-appliance --with-supermin-extra-options=--use-installed", I > ran into a peculiar error message in the c-api test: > > ,---- > | libguestfs: error: strings: /abssymlink: strings: error while loading > | shared libraries: libbfd-2.24-multiarch.so: cannot open shared object > | file: No such file or directory > `---- > > The problem here is that I have the binutils-multiarch package installed > which has used dpkg-divert(8) to override the "regular" binutils > binaries. > > ,---- > | $ dpkg-divert --list /usr/bin/strings > | diversion of /usr/bin/strings to /usr/bin/strings.single by > binutils-multiarch > `----
I'm really unclear even after reading the dpkg-divert man page what dpkg-divert does. Is it designed so that package B can move package A's files around? Is it possible for the dpkg supermin plugin to simply change ft_path when it detects that the original file has been diverted? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
