Severety: grave
thanks
This incorrect registration as an alternative breaks other FTP clients (can
they be treated as unrelated software?), and manual creation of symlinks is
required in order to recover.
Example (assuming that all previous alternatives for ftp are initially purged):
home:~# aptitude install tnftp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tnftp
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/160kB of archives. After unpacking 352kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing
_Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-2 20070108-09:43' in the drive
'/media/cdrom1/' and press enter
Selecting previously deselected package tnftp.
(Reading database ... 86617 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tnftp (from .../tnftp_20050625-0.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tnftp (20050625-0.1) ...
home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/ftp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 26 15:37 /etc/alternatives/ftp -> /usr/bin/tnftp
home:~# ls -l /usr/bin/ftp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 205716 Jul 19 2006 /usr/bin/ftp
(Here I attempted to use the "ftp" command, and didn't like this
implementation. Thus, I intended to install inetutils-ftp, purge tnftp, and
thus make inetutils-ftp the preferred alternative for ftp)
home:~# aptitude install inetutils-ftp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
inetutils-ftp
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/99.2kB of archives. After unpacking 201kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package inetutils-ftp.
(Reading database ... 86628 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking inetutils-ftp (from .../inetutils-ftp_1.5.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up inetutils-ftp (1.5.dfsg.1-2) ...
home:~# aptitude purge tnftp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
tnftp{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 352kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 86637 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tnftp ...
RC bug follows.
home:~# ls -l /usr/bin/ftp /etc/alternatives/ftp
ls: /usr/bin/ftp: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 26 15:37 /etc/alternatives/ftp -> /usr/bin/tnftp
home:~# update-alternatives --config ftp
There is only 1 program which provides ftp
(/usr/bin/inetutils-ftp). Nothing to configure.
Purging and reinstalling inetutils-ftp doesn't help to recover.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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