Re: apt comments
On Fri, 11 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.
Oh, that's a file overlap, there should be bugs filed against both
packages I hope.
Jason
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