Re: Problems in dpkg database
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 07:46:49PM +0400, Alte wrote:
> But I ran into problems loading dpkg database. They are as follows:
> 1. Great deal of packages have no $package.md5sums file
> 2. In one package there are files in $package.md5sums that are not
> listed in $package.list
md5sums files aren't mandatory.
> 3. Some files are installed by two different non-conflicting packages
> (listed in two different $package.list files)
Bug (probably at least important), but make sure to check for Replaces:
too, as that would render it not a bug.
> 4. All the filenames in $package.conffiles start with "/" but one
> conffile contains filename without leading "/"
If that does what I think it does and renders the conffiles entry
ineffective, it's probably a serious bug.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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