textutils/coreutils conflict in testing
Hi, everyone -
I have a fresh woody install and am tracking testing. Or at least I
think I'm tracking testing... I'm still pretty new to Debian-style
packages. :-) Here's my /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 70
The reason I'm confused is that dselect is trying to upgrade textutils
2.0-12 to textutils 2.1-1 and is complaining about a conflict with
coreutils 4.5.1-2. Apparently, both of them try to install /bin/cat:
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Get:1 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main textutils 2.1-1 [822kB]
Fetched 822kB in 5s (157kB/s)
(Reading database ... 83759 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace textutils 2.0-12 (using
.../textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement textutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/bin/cat', which is also in package coreutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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There are some bugs that talk about mutual dependencies between
coreutils and fileutils in unstable, but I didn't see anything about
this particular problem in testing. Has anyone else run into it? I've
temporarily pinned textutils at 2.0-12 to get past the issue but I'd
like to figure out what's going on with the packages.
thanks much,
Jeff Cours
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