tags 491457 +unreproducible thanks On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:37:55AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > Package: bash-completion > Version: 20080705
> I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest > bash-completion, with: > > > sudo apt-get install bash > The following extra packages will be installed: > bash-completion > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bash-completion > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. > Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_20080705_all.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > One of them seemed to fix itself when I did a purge of > bash_completion, and then reinstalled the same latest version in sid. > The other hasn't. I just tracked it down to it still being listed as > a conffile in /var/lib/dpkg/status for the bash package. Should there > be a method in one of the packages to clear the conffile status from > the bash package and let bash-completion take it over? There is no way to clear the conffile status of the file, though dpkg recognises that the conffile status is obsolete when I try to install bash-completion when latest bash is installed which succeeds without any errors. Does /var/lib/dpkg/bash.conffiles and /var/lib/dpkg/bash.list or one of them include /etc/bash_completion? Apparently something went wrong before the above installation try as it mentions '81 not fully installed or removed.', might that be related? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
