Re: Time to test sarge

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

harlan@artselect.com (Pete Harlan) writes:

> I pointed a gcc-3.4 machine that hasn't been updated in a few months
> to your archive, and started by trying to install libc6, which
> resulted in this:
>
> 	Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> 	dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> 	 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package base-files
> 	Errors were encountered while processing:
> 	 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_amd64.deb
> 	E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

You just missed the "everyone needs to update now sice we will break
the upgrade path soon" mails a while back.

The /lib64 and /usr/lib64 links have been moved from base-files to
libc6 and the required hints for a smooth upgrade were only added
temporarily. You have to use --force-overwrite now.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: going from gcc-3.4 back to pure64 can cause more problems