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Re: CUPS Update failed



On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0800, debian_newbie wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500
> ronin2@bellatlantic.net sat at his keyboard and wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800
> > debian_newbie <jerryvb@ispwest.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >  trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package
> > > cupsys-client
> > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > > Starting CUPSys: cupsd.
> > 
> > Read man dpkg, especially the section about --force. Focus on
> > "overwrite".
> > 
> > This sounds like a bug in the packaging.
> 
> "IF" there is a bug in the packaging, is it still safe to force the
> install?

Yes, the bug in this case is /usr/sbin/lpinfo is included in two
packages.

-- 
Jerome

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