Re: Bug#4202: dpkg chainsaw massacre
Thomas Koenig writes ("Bug#4202: dpkg chainsaw massacre"):
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> When I tried to test-install the package, there were a few warnings,
> but dpkg happily overwrote /usr/lib with that particular text file.
> I'll eagerly await what fsck has to say about this.
My apologies. I have fixed this in dpkg 1.3.9, which I'll release
shortly.
It will now only replace a directory hierarchy with a file if the
directory hierarchy is from a previous instance of the same package,
and isn't anywhere else.
You can force it to go ahead anyway with --force-overwrite-dir, but
you don't want to :-) (and it's not enabled by default, unlike
ordinary --force-overwrite).
Ian.
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