-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Micah! > > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006, Micah Anderson wrote: >>>> Impossible to install because of this error: >>>> >>>> dpkg: error processing >>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb (--unpack): >>>> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/README.RU.gz', which is >>>> also in package texlive-doc-base >>> Can you please tell me which version of texlive-doc-base you have had >>> installed? README.RU.gz is in texlive-common since texlive first entered >>> unstable, so you seem to have had some experimental versions installed. >> texlive-doc-base: >> Installed: 2005-1 >> Candidate: 2005-2 >> Version table: >> 2005-2 0 >> 500 http://mirror.direct.ca unstable/main Packages >> *** 2005-1 0 >> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Ok, I see. The problem is as follows: > > Upgrades from -1 are not supported, -1 were experimental packages.
I do not recall installing texlive-doc-base from experimental, however, I do not see where else I could have gotten it from, as I don't see -1 uploaded to unstable ever. > So please: > - purge all texlive packages > - reinstall the -2 packages This works, I'm going to close this bug. > > I thought about this and included a check for upgrades with a warning: > echo "Upgrade from experimental versions are not supported!" >&2 > echo "Please purge all texlive packages before installation." >&2 > The bug here is that the snippet of preinst code didn't end up in > texlive-doc-base, but only in texlive-common. Reason behind: Before > texlive-doc-base was at the bottom of the dependency tree. For -2 I > created texlive-common and moved the code there, which was a bug, as > there was never a version texlive-common 2005-2. > Next version will have the preinst code for upgrade in all packages. Great, I'm glad something good came out of this, instead of me just wasting your time :) Micah -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE14DG9n4qXRzy1ioRAvMYAJ4oSWEynQ0DguwTCvdsjk5qYw3VlQCcCTLx IT202cMKi6iAwFeL3ZFHoxY= =kYUV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
