Re: Borked upgrade

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 29/12/13 04:32 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-12-29 10:18 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Sb, 28 dec 13, 16:34:30, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > ...
> > > > Unpacking mate-polkit-common (1.6.0-1) ...
> > > > dpkg: error processing archive
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> > > >   trying to overwrite
> > > > '/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1.desktop', which
> > > > is also in package mate-polkit:i386 1.6.0-1
> > > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > >   /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb
> > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > >
> > >     Fixed it..thanks to dpkg --force-overwrite
> >
> > You should probably report it.
>
> That would have been my advice as well, but the mate-polkit package in
> the archive does not contain the offending file.  Frank, where did you
> get it from?


   Because the file was still there from earlier this year I didn't get 
it from anywhere. I first ran dpkg --configure -a...that configured the 
half-installed packages...then I ran dpkg with force-overwrite. I guess 
because the offending file wasn't in the package nothing got 
overwritten. I don't fully understand why the whole episode happened.

I'll file a bug.





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