Hi, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:19:54PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > tag 631299 + unreproducible > severity 631299 important > thanks
Fair enough. :) > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Daniel Stone wrote: > > By hand: for i in /usr/lib/libX11.*; do sudo dpkg-divert --add $i; done > > Hum, this doesn't rename the existing file. So when you install your > custom lib, you overwrite the packaged files. The diverted file are only > installed on the next package upgrade. Yep, that seems fine. dpkg.log shows me going through at least four libx11 upgrades this year prior to the multiarch transition, and I definitely remember seeing the *.distrib files, so. There were also a number of other X library diversions (e.g. libXau, libxcb) which suffered the same fate. > > Seems to have worked just fine since May 2010, and I've not touched it > > since then. It's a shame there's not more information I can give you. > > Hum I remember Steve Langasek saying that diverting libraries in the same > directory causes troubles because ldconfig/ld.so doesn't care of the > extension and might be confused by seeing the same SONAME twice. Yeah, I certainly remember seeing that problem, but it seemed to generally be resolved in my local library winning. > I don't see how it could have resulted in loosing files and/or diversions > but maybe someone else can. > > Maybe we should also add some sort logging to dpkg-divert just like we > added logging to update-alternatives. This would at least give some > supplementary information for cases like this one. Yeah, that would be nice. Cheers, Daniel
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