Package: hwtools Version: 0.8-3 Followup-For: Bug #291138
...buth 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails, also with "-f": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: asterisk cpudyn cpufreqd loop-aes-utils powernowd The following packages will be upgraded: hwtools 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 122kB of archives. After unpacking 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://192.168.2.222 unstable/main hwtools 0.8-4 [122kB] Fetched 122kB in 0s (2092kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... --------------------- Sourcerer Apt Watcher --------------------- Configure: hwtools grep: *.conf: No such file or directory ----------------------------------------------------------------- (Reading database ... 425217 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace hwtools 0.8-3 (using .../hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement hwtools ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/buffer.1.gz', which is also in package buffer dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ...'apt-get -f install' ignores the error and returns "ok". [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # ...(192.168.2.222 is my lan test mirror.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages hwtools depends on: ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- debconf information: hwtools/no-scsi: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]