On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:05:54PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun Feb 25 21:46:34 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > > > >> Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made: > >> > >> dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb -> > >> dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying > >> to > >> overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils > > > > This is really bad. How did /usr/bin/nm get into your package? ... > > I have no idea, now that you mention it. The src directory doesn't have any > source for nm in it. But if I run > > dpkg-deb --contents alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb > > it lists /usr/bin/nm (not to mention /usr/bin/ld, /usr/bin/strip, and a link > /usr/bin/gcc pointing to gcc-4.1). > > > How did you build this package? > > I did the usual configure, make, and then > > checkinstall -D make install > > where checkinstall is from sid. It made the deb file but failed to install > it because of the conflicts. > I forget what branch you are running, but if you are on Etch and need something from Sid or experimental, then you can follow my HOWTO:
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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