On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:18:16PM +0200, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > On Wednesday 18 of November 2009 18:23:02 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 06:11:27PM +0200, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > > > Yes, I already did that, but that didn't solve the /etc/qemu-ifup > > > conflict... > > > > > > Unpacking qemu-system (from .../qemu-system_0.11.0-3_amd64.deb) ... > > > dpkg: error processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/qemu-system_0.11.0-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying > > > to overwrite '/etc/qemu-ifup', which is also in package qemu 0:0.11.0-3 > > > > qemu 0:0.11.0-3 does not contains this file, see > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/qemu/filelist > > > > It may be a dpkg bug then. Which version of dpkg are you using? > > I have dpkg 1.15.5.1, but I don't think it is a dpkg bug. As you probably > know, files in /etc are considered configuration files and are never removed > even > if the package that installed them no longer installs them. To get them > removed, one needs to purge the package. Since in our case I am upgrading and > not purging qemu, this configuration file still belongs to qemu, so dpkg > cannot > allow another package to install the same file. >
Yes, it was I have been told. This should be fixed in version 0.11.0-5. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
