On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:11:45PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing.
Are you very sure that you don't mean "from stable to unstable"? > I am running into problems with files shared between packages. > Examples are /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg, shared by dpkg and dselect, Could you quote the error message here? I've never seen problems with this. > and /bin/readlink shared by debianutils and coreutils. The error > message is" > > trying to overwrite '/bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils > > How to I fix this? You have to wait for bug #183209 to be fixed ... 'dpkg --force-overwrite' may help, but I wouldn't necessarily like to recommend it as we're talking about two Essential packages here. I wasn't aware that this bug applied to anything but unstable, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
