Bug#95043: apt-get ignores dpkg options set from command line
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
Apt seems not to pass dpkg options to dpkg from the apt-get -o commandline
switch:
stalex@eagle:~$ sudo apt-get -o DPkg::Options="--force-overwrite" dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.5kB of archives. After unpacking 255kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ike.egr.msu.edu sid/main libpopt0 1.6.2-1 [23.5kB]
Fetched 23.5kB in 4s (5208B/s)
(Reading database ... 68673 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpopt0 1.5-0.1 (using .../libpopt0_1.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpopt0 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpopt0_1.6.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo', which is also in package rpm
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpopt0_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
stalex@eagle:~$
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eagle 2.2.19 #1 Mon Apr 16 18:20:12 EDT 2001 i586
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010407 The GNU stdc++ library
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