Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Michel Dänzer told: > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > echo force-overwrite > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg > > Please stop suggesting such crude workarounds. An administrator really > needs to know about these conflicts inst

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > echo force-overwrite > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg Please stop suggesting such crude workarounds. An administrator really needs to know about these conflicts instead of packages randomly overwriting each other's files. In the rare event of

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread float
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:43:07PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of > Elimar Riesebieter told: > > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.d

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: > > > Hello list, > > > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 dpkg returns the > > following error message: > > > > > > ---snip > > Un

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: > Hello list, > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 dpkg returns the > following error message: > > > ---snip > Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xf

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread Frank Murphy
It's Debian bug #270346. The workaround is to put a "hold" on the old version of xfree86-common until the bug in t1-cyrillic is fixed. That's why they call it "unstable." :) Frank On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:45:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hello list, > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.

Re: xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
Ok, thx somehow must have overseen the bugreport. cheers On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:16:25AM +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > > It's Debian bug #270346. The workaround is to put a "hold" on the old > version of xfree86-common until the bug in t1-cyrillic is fixed. That's > why they call it "unstable.

xfree86-common upgrade conflict with t1-cyrillic

2004-09-09 Thread float
Hello list, trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 dpkg returns the following error message: ---snip Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-7_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11', whic