Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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"? >
Using "apt-cache policy debianutils coreutils" reveals the ugly truth. I am stuck trying to downgrade from unstable to testing. I did not know unstable had crept in. I want emacs21-nox/unstable, the rest testing. > > 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. > I will try this on debianutils and coreutils. Shifting the base from stable to testing fixed the dpkg & dselect problem. Thanks, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
