Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> jgoerzen@complete.org wrote:
> > root@garfield:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
> > netscape4_4.0-7.deb
> > Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
> > (Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-7.deb) ...
> > 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?
Right. There seems to be an obscure bug in dpkg (?) which causes
directories to not be noticed as directories but as files, creating
false overwrite problems. See #20250 for more details (including a
-D2773 log)
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James
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