Debian Bug report logs - #21009
rvplayer: Namespace conflict

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <jgoerzen@complete.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:15:51 -0500

Package: rvplayer
Version: N/A

root@garfield:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
netscape4_4.0-7.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
(Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-7.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netscape4_4.0-7.deb


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (frozen)
Kernel Version: Linux garfield 2.0.33 #1 Wed Jan 14 22:54:52 CST 1998 i586 unknown

Message #10 received at 21009@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: jgoerzen@complete.org, 21009@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:47:49 -0700

jgoerzen@complete.org wrote:
> root@garfield:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
> netscape4_4.0-7.deb 
> Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
> (Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-7.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  netscape4_4.0-7.deb

I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both
installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/
directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right? What'm I
missing?

-- 
see shy jo

Message #15 received at 21009@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Cc: 21009@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:32:10 -0400

If it helps -- I do not have a /usr/lib/netscape dir but it still wont
install.

Message #20 received at 21009@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 21009@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:04:28 -0700

At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote:
>> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
>>  trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  netscape4_4.0-7.deb
>
>I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both
>installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/
>directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right? What'm I
>missing?

I suspect it's the dpkg "directory overwrite" bug, sometimes for unknown
reasons, dpkg will get confused and act as if a directory contained in one
package can overwrite the same directory contained in another package.

James Troup mentioned (on IRC) something like that when I had a similar
conflict between apt and man2html (IIRC), both packages had /var/cache and
dpkg refused to install apt because its /var/cache was "trying to overwrite
/var/cache, which is also in package man2html". He suggested I try again
with a certain -D argument to dpkg to try to nail the bug, I don't recall
what the argument was.

--
Joel "Espy" Klecker    <mailto:jk@espy.org>    <http://web.espy.org/>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/>

Message #25 received at 21009-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Cc: jgoerzen@complete.org, 21009-quiet@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: 14 Apr 1998 12:13:23 +0100

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> jgoerzen@complete.org wrote:
> > root@garfield:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
> > netscape4_4.0-7.deb 
> > Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
> > (Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-7.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
> >  trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  netscape4_4.0-7.deb
> 
> I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both
> installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/
> directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right?

Right.  There seems to be an obscure bug in dpkg (?) which causes
directories to not be noticed as directories but as files, creating
false overwrite problems.  See #20250 for more details (including a
-D2773 log)

-- 
James

Message #30 received at 21009@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

To: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>, 21009@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:29:35 +0200

On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:04:28AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote:
> >> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
> >>  trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
> >> Errors were encountered while processing:
> >>  netscape4_4.0-7.deb
> >
> >I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both
> >installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/
> >directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right? What'm I
> >missing?
> 
> I suspect it's the dpkg "directory overwrite" bug, sometimes for unknown
> reasons, dpkg will get confused and act as if a directory contained in one
> package can overwrite the same directory contained in another package.
> 
> James Troup mentioned (on IRC) something like that when I had a similar
> conflict between apt and man2html (IIRC), both packages had /var/cache and
> dpkg refused to install apt because its /var/cache was "trying to overwrite
> /var/cache, which is also in package man2html". He suggested I try again
> with a certain -D argument to dpkg to try to nail the bug, I don't recall
> what the argument was.

	I think he could be talking about the "--force-overwrite-dir"
option.

-- 
Juan Cespedes

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