Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:10:21PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > The potential workaround, if you really know what you're doing, is to > > modify dpkg's database so that it doesn't know the other package > > contains the fil

Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Are you upgrading everything at once or are you trying to upgrade > piecemeal? If you're trying to upgrade one package at a time, then > don't. The problem you are seeing is that two packages contain the > same file (at leas

Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

2002-11-26 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:43:07AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | i'm going from potato to woody and ... > | i'm getting things like this, a lot: > | > | > | Unpacking replacement eeyes ... > | dpkg: error processing /var/c

Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:43:07AM -0600, will trillich wrote: | i'm going from potato to woody and aside from having to | i'm getting things like this, a lot: | | | Unpacking replacement eeyes ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb |(--unpack): | tryi

dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

2002-11-26 Thread will trillich
i'm going from potato to woody and aside from having to apt-get install apt-utils by hand, i'm getting things like this, a lot: Preparing to replace eeyes 1:0.3.11-5 (using .../eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement eeyes ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archive