bzr 0.8.2 released

[Martin Pool]

On 17 May 2006, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> > For what is worth it, I did something very similar and got no
> > problems. I first deleted
> > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib
> > 
> > and then
> > sudo python2.4 setup.py install
> > 
> > 
> > and it works fine. (I am using Debian).
> 
> OK.  I think my mistake was that I didn't delete the bzrlib directory
> first, I tried just installing.  Do you now have a bzrlib directory at all?
> 
> I guess the way to proceed would be to manually remove
> /usr/local/bin/bzr and /usr/local/man/man1/bzr.1, and then reinstall fresh?
> 
> Even so, isn't this a bug in the installer, that it can't update
> straightforwardly an earlier install?

Yes, if we can reproduce this it's a bug.

Installation overwriting a previous version does work for me.  I suspect
you may have one copy of bzr in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin and
one is seeing the other's library -- which is exactly what this warning
is trying to catch.

-- 
Martin