[gutsy] second dpkg error in one day

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 10/5/07, Brad Johnson <lists at bkjohnson.com> wrote:
> You need to realize that new files are always being uploaded to the
> Gutsy repositories.

Got that, hence my expectation that doing twice-daily updates will break things.

> Sometimes, a new version of FileA is uploaded that
> requires a newer version of FileB but that hasn't yet been uploaded to
> the repositories. This will cause the install of FileA to error due to a
> dependency issue (just like the gimp package). You should *NOT* force
> install these packages. Rather you should just wait for FileB to become
> available in the repositories and FileA will install fine at that point.

You're kind of missing my point here.  Mainly, that FileA which
belongs to PackageA is trying to be installed in the *same place* by
both PackageA and PackageB.

Since in both cases these were non-crucial documentation files, I'm
not in the least bit afraid to force an overwrite of a README file
since i almost never read README.

But the real problem is that when this condition strikes, it freezes
the update cycle.  any other packages which have been updated will not
install, even if i do

apt-get -f install

the upgrade is still stuck at that point...  it doesn't make sense
that apt won't try to install the rest of the packages because one
package is stuck. In fact, even using apt to try to remove a different
package will fail.

Thanks for your input.