Re: apt comments

[Nils Lohner <lohner@typhoon.icd.teradyne.com>]

In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980910175707.4901L-100000@Wakko.ualberta.ca>, 
Jason G
unthorpe writes:
>
>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Nils Lohner wrote:
>
>> - allow for some form of --cont-on-error... I tried to install 
mime-support
>> (upgrade, actually) and it failed because of an a2ps conflict.  It then 
>> exited and didn't configure the remaining upgraded packages it had 
>> downloaded.  I ran dpkg --pending --configure manually and that worked 
fine.
>
>Erm, conflict? Are you sure it wasn't a post-inst failure? dpkg should not
>report a conflict when trying to install..
>
  Not sure when exactly it was... but the conflict was over the file 
/usr/bin/convert which is in both a2ps and in mime-support.  Should be easy 
to reproduce if you want to check it out... after I removed a2ps, 
mime-support installed fine.

Nils.