Re: [gutsy] second dpkg error in one day

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:

first, is there a more user-friendly way of getting the rest of the
packatges marked for install to continue without issuing

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/[package-name].deb

Not that I know of...

and second, is there anything the devs can do to avoid this? why
would a lib file's credits or readme be overwritten by the main
package?

aiui, these things generally happen because a file is being moved from one
package to another. The only way to prevent that is to update both
packages at exactly the same time. Because of the nature of mirroring, I
shouldn't think it's possible to guarantee that that happens on the mirrors
even if the developer could guarantee it on the initial site. It's just
something you have to put up with if you use not-yet-released versions.
--
derek


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