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Re: Error upgrading to GNOME 2.4 on Sid



Le dim 19/10/2003 à 13:47, Sven Luther a écrit :
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:01PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Note: I do not use the "fore-port" from fpeters on this machine.
> > 
> > Unpacking replacement gnome-panel-data ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-panel-data_2.4.1-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pixmaps/cdeappmenu.png', which is also
> > in package gnome-desktop-data
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > 
> > It seems the order in which it does the upgrade counts because
> > restarting the upgrade just after that, whitout any other change works.
> 
> This is a bug in apt-get, which doesn't know that it should ignore
> overwrite errors when the packages are updated. Or better yet, it should
> notice, and remove/upgrade the old package before installing the new
> one.
Does aptitude do better?

> A rerun of dpkg/apt usually fixes the problem though.
That's what I did and it worked, off course.

I just wanted to let you know, in case there's something to do to fix it
cleanly.

> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
-- 
Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>

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