Bug#534140: lintian: unknown error processing binary package: "File exists"
On Sunday 21 June 2009 21:36:47 Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Not a bug in Lintian but rather a bug in the way I redid the archive run
> on bellini. There was a copy of a partially updated lab from the rsync,
> and then I ran -f instead of -c to use the existing lab without
> realizing that would cause the obvious problems. (In particular, the
> reporting harness figures out what packages will require unpacking at
> the start of the run, so I think what you're seeing is attempts to
> unpack a package over top of an existing unpacked package because of the
> inconsistency between the metadata and the lab.)
Maybe we could learn from this and think about using a more atomic process?
>
> I'm re-running the full archive run on bellini now with -c, which should
> fix this. Thankfully, a full archive run finishes on bellini in about a
> day, as opposed to the four days it takes on gluck.
Oh, I hadn't noticed the move (only heard of it in #-devel), nice :).
Cheers,
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