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Re: Raid 1 + lilo



On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:06, I. Forbes wrote:
> > > > > 1)  has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto
> > > > >     potato.  I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines?
> > > >
> > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/
> > >
> > > Thanks very much.  It almost looks like you put this together in
> > > response to my request.
> >
> > Yes.
>
> There is a small bug with this package.  When I try and install it I get
> a problem with conflicting manpage versions.  The lilo-doc package
> installed without problems.
>
> nimbus2:~/debs# dpkg -i lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb
> dpkg: regarding lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb containing lilo:
>  lilo conflicts with manpages (<< 1.29-3)
>   manpages (version 1.29-2) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing lilo
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb
>
> The manpages package installed is the latest "stable" version.

Sorry I forgot about that.  Use --force-conflicts and --force-overwrite, it's 
probably not worth releasing a new package just for this.

Or you could just install the manpages package from woody.

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