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Re: a problem with pcmcia-modules-2.4.17 in sid



Seneca Cunningham <seneca@slemish.com> wrote:

>        icosagon:~# dpkg -i /floppy/*.deb
>        Selecting previously deselected package psmcia-modules-2.4.17-386.
>        (Reading database ... 20503 files and directories currently installed.)
>        Unpacking pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386 (from .../pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_
> 3.1.31-3k1_i386.deb) ...
>        dpkg: error processing /floppy/pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_3.1.31-3k1
> _i386.deb (--install):
>         trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.4.17-386/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o', which
> is also in package kernel-image-2.4.17-386

This is because the kernel-image package already contains a set of
PCMCIA modules.  The fact that it's occupying the same namespace as
the ones from pcmcia-modules is a bug which will be resolved soon.
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