Hello debian-user, escalating back to the list. Please tell me whether my behavior is aggravating the situation and whether I'm screwing around with his head. So far I considered myself not to be overly friendly but still polite, and I thought my suggestions would have helped this user.
As this is apparently not the case please also state a more appropriate solution to this user's problem. I guess I'm not the best choice to walk him through the process. For reference I include everything I sent to Philip off-list (snipping out everything he didn't disclose publicly; Philip can authorize me to add his replies or just do so himself). I'm seriously interested in getting to know whether I need to readjust my code of conduct. Thanks for taking care, cheers, Flo Abstract of the original problem: he wants to install a package from experimental, gets a file overlap, but still wants to proceed installing this package. My off-list mails follow: ----- Begin of mails ----- Subject: Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem To: Philip Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:42:39 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:48:53PM -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 14:30, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Are you sure experimental is the best choice for you? Please see > > http://bugs.debian.org/240589 as well as read man dpkg and search ^^^^^^^^ > > for forcing options (hint: overwrite) if you still want to install ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > exactly this package. Cheers, Flo Subject: Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem To: Philip Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:44:32 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Philip! I have a hard time following the flow of thought in this mail from you... On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:20:03AM -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > [his reply snipped] man dpkg, forcing option for overwriting, thus doing as root dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb will install the package (well, rather force it into the system) and update the package database. But as the package is broken (file overlap with kdelibs-data) this problem might persist unless the maintainers of kdelibs-data and hicolor-icon-theme agree on in what package the file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme shall be shipped in and both get properly updated. Cheers, Flo Subject: Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem To: Philip Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:44:07 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Philip! On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:57:03AM -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > [his reply snipped] When? Rather try to make it as complete as you can. > [his reply snipped] Don't paraphrase actions, please state the exact command(s) issued or provide a complete transcript. > [his reply snipped] Take a backup before and compare after upgrading. Got backup? Use mc or ar to examine the .debs' contents even without installing them. > [his reply snipped] Read your previous mail, it sounds confusing: <Quote>[quote from his mail snipped]</Quote> Later on then you state what you still have... Actions taken on my system: |# dpkg -i hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb |Selecting previously deselected package hicolor-icon-theme. |(Reading database ... 57073 files and directories currently installed.) |Unpacking hicolor-icon-theme (from hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb) ... |dpkg: error processing hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb (--install): | trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme', which is also in package kdelibs-data |Errors were encountered while processing: | hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb |# echo $? |1 OK, so dpkg returns the error code 1 here, the same you get and which apt echoes back to you. But: |# dpkg -i --force-overwrite hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb |(Reading database ... 57073 files and directories currently installed.) |Unpacking hicolor-icon-theme (from hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb) ... |dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: | trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme', which is also in package kdelibs-data |Setting up hicolor-icon-theme (0.5-1) ... |# apt-get -f install |Reading Package Lists... Done |Building Dependency Tree... Done |0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |# apt-get upgrade |Reading Package Lists... Done |Building Dependency Tree... Done |0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |# So it looks like the solution I provided really solves the problem, and something goes wrong when you try it. Are you sure you did exactly what I did? If so include a complete transcript and let's go back to the mailinglist... Cheers, Flo ----- End of mails -----
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