[Grml] Grml/Grml-small sort of progress report.

[Michael Prokop]

* s. keeling <keeling at spots.ab.ca> [20061104 06:15]:
> Incoming from Michael Prokop:

[...]

> Preparing to replace coreutils 5.93-5 (using .../coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', which is the diverted version of `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz'
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev
> aptitude upgrade  36.49s user 22.64s system 72% cpu 1:21.37 total
>    ------------------------------------------------------

> complaining about a different package each time.  What's that symbol
> lookup error from aptitude?  I've tried dpkg -i with similar results.

Regarding to Debian's changelog this problem should have been fixed:

,---- [ /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.Debian.gz ]
| coreutils (5.97-1) unstable; urgency=low
|
|   * New upstream version
|     - cat options work in /proc Closes: 370583
|   * [70] add sha2 utilities Closes: 325205
|   * remove spurious removal of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils
|     in preinst
|
|  -- Michael Stone <mstone at debian.org>  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:34:44 -0400
`----

Your can force overwrite manually running

# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb

regards,
-mika-
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