Dear Fink Developers
I couple of times i encountered the problem that an install or upgrade of a package failed with the error message: "Failed: can't batch-install packages". I also got an report like that from a user of one of my packages. For details see this log:
<http://bwv988.pdl.cmu.edu:8080/svn_comp_err>
Therefore i plan to add the FAQ entry shown below. Does anybody have more information on that? Or does anybody has any objections to add this FAQ?
Since the real error message in this case was
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/svn-client-ssl_1.0.2-11_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/sw/share/man/man1/svnversion.1', which is also in package svn-ssl
he might have found FAQ#Q6.5: When I try to install a package I get an error message about trying to overwrite a file that is in another package.
I am not sure if the advice given in #6.5, namely using dpkg -i --force-overwrite, is optimal. You should probably combine your answer with that one and cover the ground between the two extremes, using force or doing nothing and trying again, depending on what is really going on.
In the case at hand, the error came from moving a file into a splitoff, and therefore it could perhaps even have been avoided altogether, by placing
Replaces: svn-ssl
into the svn-client-ssl splitoff. BTW, looking at this, I don't understand the usefulness of having
Conflicts: svn-client-ssl (<= 0.26.0-2) Replaces: svn-client-ssl (<= 0.26.0-2)
in a splitoff named svn-client-ssl. Doesn't every package conflict with and replace older versions of itself? Am I missing something?
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