Bug#415646: sarge > etch dist-upgrade fails, x11-common fails overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin

[Scott Raun <sraun@fireopal.org>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:10:01AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Scott Raun wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:35:22AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> >   
> >> Scott Raun wrote:
> >>     
> >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-15_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >>>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package 
> >>> navigator-smotif-477
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Where does this navigator-smotif-477 package come from? I don't see it here.
> >>
> >> We should conflict with it so that it is removed before we replace
> >> /usr/X11/bin/ with a symlink during the upgrade of x11-common. But if it
> >> is not an official Debian package, we might just ignore the problem...
> >>     
> >
> > I don't know.  It was part of either my potato or sarge installation, 
> > and has been upgraded as I went along.
> 
> Ok, found it, it was in woody/non-free. I guess we are not going to add
> a conflict for it then :)

Oops - yeah, it was woody, not potato.
 
> >   I'm most upset because EMACS is currently broken.
> >   
> 
> Can't you fix it by removing navigator-smotif-477 and finishing the
> upgrade with something like apt-get -f install ?

apt-get is stuck in the middle of doing a dist-upgrade.  If I try to do 
an apt-get -f install, I get the x11-common error that I'm reporting.  
If I try to do an apt-get remove navigator-smotif, apt-get says 'you're 
in the middle of something. Try doing a -f install to force it to 
complete, and then do the remove'.

I'm a little frustrated at this point.  If there is a way to tell the 
dist-upgrade to just ignore all the navigator packages (better yet, 
delete and ignore them!) in the middle of the dist-upgrade, I'd LOVE to 
implement it.  But I don't know anywhere near enough about apt-get to 
have any idea how to do that.

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun@fireopal.org