Re: gcc-3.0-sparc64 install failure
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 05:16, Olivier Bornet wrote:
>
> > I have had the same problems long time ago. I have "force" the remove of
> > the package with :
> >
> > dpkg --force-all --purge gcc-3.0-sparc64
> >
> > and then a re-installation was OK.
> >
> > Hope this help.
>
> It did help. I was able to make it happy again. But I still think
> there is a error in the new package. I tried the upgrade on another
> system and encountered the same error...
>
> I would rather not have to do this brute force on the half dozen odd
> systems I would like to upgrade.
The problem comes when the version changes, and the diversion is
attempted. The original diversion is:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.0.2/cc1 -> cc1.32
and the upgrade tries to do:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.0.3/cc1 -> cc1.32
But this confuses the dpkg-divert program severely.
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