Kevin Puetz writes: > Abologies to Yann since I cc'ed 2 bugs with this, but I think it should be > in > the discussion of both. > > While this bug *is* resolved in 1999.08.29-9 for me the prerm script in > 1999.08.29-8 (the one that actually broke on my machine) fails, so the new > one > does not get installed. In my case, the solution was to obtain the actual > deb > (should be in /var/cache/apt/archives/console-data_1999.08.29-9_all.deb if > apt > just failed) and dpkg -i --force confnew console-data_1999.08.29-9.deb. That > made the install succeed. I don't know if there is any way to make this > automatically use the new scripts, but it would help.
Hm... doesn't the prerm from the new package get run when the old one fails ? And what is the failure, so that I can fix it ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Powerful, more Stable ! http://www.altern.org/ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>