Re: have I messed up package management?

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

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On Sun Feb 25 16:15:46 2007, I wrote:

> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source.  I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts.  I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
> ...
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved?  Thanks.

On Sun Feb 25 16:20:22 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez replied:

> That depends.  If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when
> you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to
> rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.

and on Sun Feb 25 16:27:56 2007, Ron Johnson said:

> Getting your packages installed will/should solve that, though.
>
> What error messages were you getting?

Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made:

dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
  dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to
    overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils
dpkg -i alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
   dpkg: error processing alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install):
     trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap', which
     is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686

However, I also listed all the files my deb files would install (with
dpkg-deb --contents *.deb).  For lib, there were 80 files that already had
versions installed, most but not all from libasound2.  For driver, there were
13 files that already had versions installed, all from
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686.  As I said, I ran "make install" anyway but now
wonder what will happen if I try to upgrade libasound2, for example.

Thanks again.