Re: [Fink-devel] update script ready for testing

[Daniel M. <dm...@ne...>]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:26:13PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Brendan Cully wrote:
> >
> > Preparing to replace cyrus-sasl2-dev 2.1.21-3 (using .../cyrus- 
> > sasl2-dev_2.1.21-1015_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement cyrus-sasl2-dev ...
> > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/cyrus- 
> > sasl2-dev_2.1.21-1015_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/sw/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.so', which is also  
> > in package cyrus-sasl2
> > Preparing to replace cyrus-sasl2 2.1.21-3 (using .../cyrus- 
> > sasl2_2.1.21-1015_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement cyrus-sasl2 ...
> > ...
> > Unpacking replacement apr-ssl-common ...
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/cyrus-sasl2-dev_2.1.21-1015_darwin- 
> > powerpc.deb
> > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > ### execution of apt-get failed, exit code 100
> > fink update-all
> 
> Older versions of cyrus-sasl2 had some files in the wrong splitoffs.  
> Since those files have moved around, you can have this problem  
> particularly during update-all. Reissuing the command should work  
> properly. Sorry for the inconvenience, but there was no completely  
> seamless way to fix the package.

Often, one can use the Replaces field to smooth the upgrade when a
file jumps from one package to another. If files moved from foo to
foo-dev starting in {foo,foo-dev}-2.1.1-1, having foo-dev:
  Replaces: foo (<< 2.1.1-1)
should allow the foo-dev with the new layout to be installed when one
has the foo from the old layout installed.

dan

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