On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:03 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > reassign -1 dpkg > Bug#301150: libstdc++6-4.0-doc: dpkg fails to manage this package : filenames too long (on my box at least) > Bug reassigned from package `libstdc++6-4.0-doc' to `dpkg'. > (From the bug report) > unable to clean up mess surrounding > `./usr/share/doc/gcc-4.0-base/libstdc++/html_user/structstd_1_1tr1_1_1tuple__size_3_01tuple_3_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_class_00_01___null_' > before installing another version: File name too long The "File name too long" is an error returned by the rename() call, specifically ENAMETOOLONG. This filename is too long for your filesystem. I don't think dpkg should randomly truncate or alter filenames, therefore there's nothing dpkg can do here other than abort the installation. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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