This sounds more like a feature request for dpkg than for apt. (it
also sounds like a bug in nvidia-glx to me, but registering which package
a given diversion belongs to also seems like a good idea to me)
Ccing this to bug #45480 since it seems to be relevant.
Daniel
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:43:23 +0200
From: Magnus Berg <magnus@burgsvik.se>
Subject: Feature request: 'dpkg-divert --rename --remove' with Aptitude
To: dburrows@debian.org
Hi!
I have a little feature request (or see it as a bugfix ;-)) for Aptitude. I
resently installed Etch and realised that Aptitude does a great job renaming
files with help of dpkg-divert but hten you purge that package Aptitude
doesn't remove that diverted name. So then you are going to install a new
package with such file you get an error message like this (in Swedish, but
I'm sure you totaly understand that it says:
(Läser databasen ... 56282 filer och kataloger installerade.)
Packar upp nvidia-glx (från .../nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.a.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx' clashes with
`diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.a.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-legacy'
dpkg: fel vid hantering
av /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
underprocess pre-installation script gav felkod 2
Fel uppstod vid hantering:
/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ett paketinstallation misslyckades. Försöker att lösa problemet:
Tryck Return för att fortsätta.
Today I learned to use:
# dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/example.foo
but I should recomend you to built in this function in Aptitude so it remove
the deverted names on files that being removed or purged.
Best wishes
Magnus Berg
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