Hi Cristian I hope the following approach with manual intervention might help:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:46:07PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > > > So, restoring the perl man-page is what I want. And I want to do it > > > properly. > > > > I'd probably try to reinstall libmodule-corelist-perl to get the > > diversions in order and then remove it; > > Did that. No joy :( > > > might fail too since there's some confusion on your machine :/ > > Yes, it did fail. What would I need to do to clean upp the mess? > I just need something to get me going. I see: > > # dpkg-divert --list \*corelist\* > diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz by libmodule-corelist-perl > diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by > libmodule-corelist-perl > > and /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmodule-corelist-perl.postrm shows: > > dpkg-divert --remove --package libmodule-corelist-perl --rename \ > --divert /usr/bin/corelist.bundled /usr/bin/corelist > > dpkg-divert --remove --package libmodule-corelist-perl --rename \ > --divert /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz > > What can I do to clean that up? First how I reproduced it by creating a spurious /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz: root@sid:~# zgrep 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz .TH CORELIST 1 "2012-09-07" "perl v5.14.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" Checked the version from 'perl' package and then installed libmodule-corelist-perl: root@sid:~# apt-get install libmodule-corelist-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libmodule-corelist-perl 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/68.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 475 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package libmodule-corelist-perl. (Reading database ... 30180 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmodule-corelist-perl (from .../libmodule-corelist-perl_2.73-1_all.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by libmodule-corelist-perl' Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz by libmodule-corelist-perl' Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libmodule-corelist-perl (2.73-1) ... root@sid:~# zgrep 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.*.gz /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1p.gz:.TH CORELIST 1p "2012-09-20" "perl v5.14.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz:.TH CORELIST 1 "2012-09-07" "perl v5.14.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" Ok so far fine, now add a spurious empty /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz and try to remove libmodule-corelist-perl leads to the situation you have: root@sid:~# touch /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz root@sid:~# apt-get --purge remove libmodule-corelist-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libmodule-corelist-perl* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 475 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 30193 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libmodule-corelist-perl ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by libmodule-corelist-perl' Removing 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz by libmodule-corelist-perl' dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz' with different file `/usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz', not allowed dpkg: error processing libmodule-corelist-perl (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: libmodule-corelist-perl E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Let's check the files: root@sid:~# zgrep 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.*.gz /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz:.TH CORELIST 1 "2012-09-07" "perl v5.14.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" root@sid:~# ls -lah /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 20 18:07 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K Sep 7 03:16 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz Ah okay so my empty created /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz is still there, the one from libmodule-corelist-perl is already gone: root@sid:~# rm /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz root@sid:~# apt-get --purge remove libmodule-corelist-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libmodule-corelist-perl 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 475 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 30181 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libmodule-corelist-perl ... No diversion 'diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by libmodule-corelist-perl', none removed. Removing 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz by libmodule-corelist-perl' root@sid:~# zgrep 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.*.gz .TH CORELIST 1 "2012-09-07" "perl v5.14.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" root@sid:~# So, could you save away (for security) your /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz and then try to purge again libmodule-corelist-perl? Does this manual intervention resolved your problem? Regards, Salvatore
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