Debian Bug report logs -
#7692
dpkg can't handle multiple replaces (was: Freezing Bo)
Reported by: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:18:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 4947,
10573,
32635
Found in versions 1.4.0.17, 1.4.0.33
Done: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Bug#7692.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
dpkg has problems with installing packages which have multiple
replaces together with conflicts. The problem comes up with the
installation of tetex which is supposed to replace all the old tex
packages.
> dpkg: regarding .../tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb containing tetex-base:
> tetex-base conflicts with bibtex
> bibtex (version 0.99c-4) is installed.
> bibtex provides bibtex and is installed.
> dpkg: error processing debian/unstable/binary-i386/tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb (--install):
> conflicting packages - not installing tetex-base
> dpkg: considering removing texbin in favour of tetex-bin ...
> dpkg: yes, will remove texbin in favour of tetex-bin.
> dpkg: regarding .../tex/tetex-bin_0.4pl6-4.deb containing tetex-bin:
or
>dpkg: considering removing texinfo in favour of tetex-base ...
>dpkg: yes, will remove texinfo in favour of tetex-base.
>dpkg: regarding ../tetex-base_0.4pl6-1_all.deb containing tetex-base:
> tetex-base conflicts with texidoc
> texidoc (version 3.7-1) is installed.
>dpkg: error processing ../tetex-base_0.4pl6-1_all.deb (--install):
> conflicting packages - not installing tetex-base
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> ../tetex-base_0.4pl6-1_all.deb
All the packages that are to be removed are in the conflicts and in
the replaces section. But only the first item is considered to be
removed.
The only option is first to remove all the conflicting packages and
then install the new ones.
dpkg-1.4.0.6
C. Martin
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Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany
Internet-Mail: Christoph.Martin@Uni-Mainz.DE
Bug assigned to package `dpkg'.
Request was from Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>
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