Catching file conflicts
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:24:39AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> (Reading database ... 48506 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking gnome-session (from .../gnome-session_1.4.0.7-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session_1.4.0.7-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-smproxy.1.gz', which is
> also in package gnome-core
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session_1.4.0.7-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
As has already been pointed out, this bug is fixed.
However, should it not be possible to implement an automated check to ensure
that packages do not contain conflicting files without declaring Conflicts
or Replaces? We already extract the lists to create the Contents files, no?
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- mdz
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