El 04/01/09 07:07 Arthur Marsh escribió: > Package: checkinstall > Version: 1.6.1-8 > Severity: normal > > > Hi, I downloaded gthumb 2.10.10 from ftp.gnome.org and unpacked it, ran > ./configure > make > checkinstall make install > > when I had gthumb 3:2.10.8 already installed. > > The installation failed due to the checkinstall trying to overwrite some > files split out as gthumb-data, but the gthumb binary remained installed > and the old gthumb binary was not reverted to the existing version. > > aptitude still listed the 3:2.10.8 as installed, but I had to reinstall > 3:2.10.8 to fix things up.
This problem is because of the way checkinstall works. Checkinstall tracks the isntallation, and after that creates a package with the contents that are already on the system. Thus, if the dpkg run fails, the system is inconsistent: apt thinks it has an older version than what is actually installed. Filesystem translation helps avoid this problem, but it is currently broken due to a set of new system calls that checkinstall doesn't track yet. Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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