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Re: have I messed up package management?



Hello Roberto.

Roberto C. Sanchez, 26.02.2007 04:20:
> 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?

This a (at least to me) known bug of Checkinstall. It sometimes includes sytem
binaries like the above, gcc and such in the package. Don’t ask me why.


Regards, Mathias

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