/etc/alternatives contains files

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Brewer
Hi Some packages failed to upgrade in my lenny to squeeze update because updare-alternatives encountered a file rather than a symbolic link. An example of this was fakeroot which produced the error: update-alternatives: error: readlink(/etc/alternatives/fakeroot) failed: Invalid argument The

Re: /etc/alternatives contains files

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-02-29 17:26 +0100, Bob Brewer wrote: Some packages failed to upgrade in my lenny to squeeze update because updare-alternatives encountered a file rather than a symbolic link. An example of this was fakeroot which produced the error: update-alternatives: error: