On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:27:43PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I'm installing 4.3 from the penguinppc repository, and am getting a > bunch of these: > > Configuration file `/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/fi' > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : background this process to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** fi (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y > Installing new version of config file /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/fi ... > > The problem is that I have not manually modified any of those files. > I've seen this on three computers now, so I know it's not an isolated > problem. The problem is that these files are moving from xlibs to xlibs-data, so dpkg says 'oh, xlibs-data is trying to install these conffiles for the first time, but they already exist; what do I do?'. There's no way that dpkg can currently deal with conffile migrations. Sucks, but that's life. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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