Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote:
>> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
>>  trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  netscape4_4.0-7.deb
>
>I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both
>installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/
>directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right? What'm I
>missing?

I suspect it's the dpkg "directory overwrite" bug, sometimes for unknown
reasons, dpkg will get confused and act as if a directory contained in one
package can overwrite the same directory contained in another package.

James Troup mentioned (on IRC) something like that when I had a similar
conflict between apt and man2html (IIRC), both packages had /var/cache and
dpkg refused to install apt because its /var/cache was "trying to overwrite
/var/cache, which is also in package man2html". He suggested I try again
with a certain -D argument to dpkg to try to nail the bug, I don't recall
what the argument was.

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Joel "Espy" Klecker    <mailto:jk@espy.org>    <http://web.espy.org/>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/>



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