On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:41:59AM +0100, dAniel hAhler wrote: > With diverted files the "unable to create" error is confusing. [...]
> With the attached patch the error will look like the following instead: > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.1~git20071212-1ubuntu2_i386.deb > (--install): > unable to create `/usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core.dpkg-new' > (while processing > `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'): No such file or directory I was stuck for two hours trying to debug a problem with a package which wouldn't install as I was bitten by this very same confusing error message. Please, please, please apply this simple patch - it would have saved me and others such headaches! (Even better still would be a message to say that a diversion has been applied, but this is a very good solution in the meantime.) Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
