Bug#466484: about unresolved file conflict with extra-xdg-menus
reopen 466484
thanks
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:58:57AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 20:25 +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > Hello List, Drew and Hamish,
> >
> > This bug seems to have gone here. Can you guys please check so we might
> > close it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joop PG4I
>
> You're right, Joop, it's installing OK now:
>
> $ dpkg -l hamradiomenus extra-xdg-menus
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii extra-xdg-menu 1.0-2 Extra menu categories for applications
> under
> ii hamradiomenus 1.1 hamradio menus for GNOME and KDE
>
>
> Must have been some ghost in the shell.
No, upgrading from 1.0-3 still fails:
[10:22AM] hamish@noddy:packages/ham/menu $ sudo dpkg -i hamradiomenus_1.0-3_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package hamradiomenus.
(Reading database ... 171311 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hamradiomenus (from hamradiomenus_1.0-3_all.deb) ...
Setting up hamradiomenus (1.0-3) ...
[10:22AM] hamish@noddy:packages/ham/menu $ sudo apt-get install hamradiomenus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
extra-xdg-menus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
extra-xdg-menus
The following packages will be upgraded:
hamradiomenus
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.1kB of archives.
After this operation, 147kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 171318 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hamradiomenus 1.0-3 (using .../hamradiomenus_1.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hamradiomenus ...
Unpacking extra-xdg-menus (from .../extra-xdg-menus_1.0-2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/extra-xdg-menus_1.0-2_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/hamradio.menu', which is also in package hamradiomenus
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/extra-xdg-menus_1.0-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I meant to fix this but haven't yet (not sure of the best approach yet).
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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