Subject: dpkg & accidental overwrite of /usr/man/man1

From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 01:26:29 -0400

Eek!  I made a goof in a package I'm putting together and dpkg let me get
away with it.

The problem was that I saved a man page as "/usr/man/man1" instead of
the correct name "/usr/man/man1/manpage.1".  Dpkg noticed the conflict,
but went ahead and toasted the 'man1' directory anyway.

It seems dpkg still has the "--force" option enabled for files found in
multiple packages and so went ahead with the overwrite.

Can we remove this force?  Alternatively, could we make it so entire
directories can't be replaced by a single file?
                                                  
                                               Brian
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From: Warwick HARVEY <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +1000

> Eek!  I made a goof in a package I'm putting together and dpkg let me get

It was fixed in dpkg 1.3.9 - someone else was already bitten.  :-)

>From what I understand, the directory should not be gone - just renamed.

				Warwick

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:26:10 -0400

> >From what I understand, the directory should not be gone - just renamed.

Any idea what to?  I can't find it.  It's not a big deal as I had a
backup I could restore from.
                                                  
                                               Brian
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