On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:05:17AM -0000, Wookey wrote: > The binutils-multiarch re-install line is there because it is the fairly > crufty way we deal with diversions. Nothing guarantees correct ordering > (pre-depends ignored) so diverts may happen before the thing they direct > are present. Simplest fix is to re-install any package doing diversions > at the end. In a base cross-chroot that's just binutils-multiarch. > Declarative diverts would let us deal with this without explicit config.
Well, then you're working around a bug that does not exist. It's perfectly allowed to divert a file before that file exists, and dpkg will do the right thing on unpack. So I'm going to drop this part of the patch for upload. > The attached patch is pretty-much the same as yours except that it also > ensures --force-yes is correctly used for the re-install option if > noauth is set. Right, good point. noauth should never be used, but if someone's going to use it, it should work... Uploaded to the maverick queue, thanks! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- multistrap needs to be updated for new apt and cross-tools in main https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
