Re: upgrading base-files problem

[Peter Nelson <rufus-kernel@hackish.org>]

Not sure if this is directly related to the other errors but libc6 and 
base-files are unhappy with each other.  Here's the error:

Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-19 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing /afs/hackish.org/data/debian-amd64/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package base-files
Errors were encountered while processing:
/afs/hackish.org/data/debian-amd64/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

When I did --force-overwrite it works, giving these warnings:

Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-19 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package base-files
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/lib64', which is also in package base-files
Setting up libc6 (2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64) ...

Thanks,
-Peter