Re: have I messed up package management?

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

References: <[🔎] 20070226032032.GQ15162@santiago.connexer.com>

On Sun Feb 25 21:46:34 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> This is really bad.  How did /usr/bin/nm get into your package? ...

I have no idea, now that you mention it.  The src directory doesn't have any
source for nm in it.  But if I run

  dpkg-deb --contents alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb

it lists /usr/bin/nm (not to mention /usr/bin/ld, /usr/bin/strip, and a link
/usr/bin/gcc pointing to gcc-4.1).

> How did you build this package?

I did the usual configure, make, and then

  checkinstall -D make install

where checkinstall is from sid.  It made the deb file but failed to install
it because of the conflicts.