Control: tag -1 - moreinfo On 2017-01-10 12:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 02:17 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools-boot_0.6.4-1_all.deb ... >> Unpacking multipath-tools-boot (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ... >> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools- >> boot_0.6.4-1_all.deb (--unpack): >> trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot', which is also in >> package multipath-tools 0.5.0-6+deb8u2 >> Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb ... >> Unpacking multipath-tools (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ...
> I am surprised that I'm not able to reproduce this locally. > Please see the terminal log. > Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking multipath-tools (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ... > Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools-boot_0.6.4-1_all.deb ... > Unpacking multipath-tools-boot (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ... how did you do your upgrade test? with apt? aptitude? in your case the problematic packages were upgraded in the opposite order compared to my test, so the overwritten file was already gone - no conflict Andreas
