Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Hi Marco,
I think the root cause of this bug is the old bug in dpkg, whereby if a file
has been diverted on the filesystem, dpkg will not clean it up when the
owning package stops shipping it.
This bug has since been fixed in dpkg, but modutils must have stopped
shipping /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz some time ago (in favor of
/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5).
Since the reason for removing the diversion is that module-init-tools now
conflicts with modutils, I think module-init-tools must also take
responsibility for removing the orphaned files. A simple rm -f
/usr/share/man/${locale}man$DSECTION/$1.modutils.$DSECTION.gz before the
dpkg-divert call should be sufficient.
Frédéric's explanation for the origin of these files is also plausible, and
has the same solution.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Hello, Sorry but release 3.3-pre11-3 doesn't fix this pb to me ;-( J. --- Pack Scarlet One, ADSL 6 Mbps + Telephonie, a partir de EUR 29,95... http://www.scarlet.be/
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.3-pre11-3,3.3-pre11-2 Severity: grave It seems that upgrading of packeages in unstable is hindered by this bug so the importance should be raised to grave! A temporary workaround is to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-1 from testing after the failure to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-3 and automatic removal of modutils-2.4.27.0-6: dpkg --set-selections module-init-tools hold ^D apt-get install module-init-tools=3.3-pre11-1 -t testing apt-get install modutils=2.4.27.0-6 -t unstable Trying to install modutils again after failure to setup 3.3-pre11-3 will attempt to remove kernels and other vital packages so 3.3-pre11-1 has to be re-installed before: apt-get -s install modutils -t unstable The following packages will be REMOVED initramfs-tools linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686-smp linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 module-init-tools -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: so the importance should be raised to grave! A temporary workaround is to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-1 from testing after the failure to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-3 and automatic removal of Marco has previously stated that downgrading of m-i-t is not supported. Feel free to look at #428953 and #429572 to get a taste of the joys that await if you step on that road. I haven't looked closely at pre11-3's pre/postrm, but you might be okay if you were to remove pre11-3 (using --force if necessary) before installing pre11-1. All these bugs are caused by one version installing a diversion over another version's files; as long as each version cleanly wipes all its stuff upon removal, doing a remove/install instead of up/downgrading should be safe. -- StevenK I can usually supress the feelings that tell me to crash tackle a girl into the bushes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:24 -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: so the importance should be raised to grave! A temporary workaround is to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-1 from testing after the failure to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-3 and automatic removal of Marco has previously stated that downgrading of m-i-t is not supported. Feel free to look at #428953 and #429572 to get a taste of the joys that await if you step on that road So what to to then? What is the problem with downgrading? dpkg --status module-init-tools and dpkg --status modutils does look OK for me! I haven't looked closely at pre11-3's pre/postrm, but you might be okay if you were to remove pre11-3 (using --force if necessary) before installing pre11-1. All these bugs are caused by one version installing a diversion over another version's files; as long as each version cleanly wipes all its stuff upon removal, doing a remove/install instead of up/downgrading should be safe.
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Hi, for those removing files: Deleting /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz is enough. I suspect that this is left over from some other package or older version of module-init-tools? (I couldn't find any version that has 367 bytes on snapshot.d.o, though.) Even though the compressed files differ in size (I don't have any md5sums anymore, sorry), zdiff didn't find differences. Kind regards T. Here are the sizes of the two files when it went wrong: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411 2006-01-17 21:05 modules.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367 2004-07-21 01:25 modules.modutils.5.gz -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.3-pre11-2 Severity: serious Justification: Makes upgrade fail Upgrading module-init-tools (from 3.3-pre11-1 to 3.3-pre11-2) fails with the following error message: Preparing to replace module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-1 (using .../module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz' with different file `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages module-init-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip module-init-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
I'm not sure, if that information helps: When I try to remove modutils first (that works) and then try to update module-init-tools, then I receive this error: + undivert_man modules 5 + DSECTION=5 + for locale in ''\'''\''' fr/ + dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package module-init-tools --divert /usr/share/man/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/modules.5.gz + for locale in ''\'''\''' fr/ + dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package module-init-tools --divert /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz' with different file `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz', not allowed dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: module-init-tools Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#428650: module-init-tools: Upgrade fails: Tries to overwrite diversion of french man page
Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 01:11 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: I'm not sure, if that information helps: When I try to remove modutils first (that works) and then try to update module-init-tools, then I receive this error: + undivert_man modules 5 + DSECTION=5 + for locale in ''\'''\''' fr/ + dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package module-init-tools --divert /usr/share/man/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/modules.5.gz + for locale in ''\'''\''' fr/ + dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package module-init-tools --divert /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz' with different file `/usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz', not allowed dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: module-init-tools Is it possible, that is it somehow related to the fact, that modutils also contains /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5 besides the gzipped manpage modules.5.gz? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
