conflict between getopt and util-linux packages

[Jason Upton]

NCP2 Beta1 b104+

# cat /etc/issue
NexentaCore 2.0 Beta 1 (Hardy 8.04/b104+)

with the "getopt" package already installed, an "apt-get dist-upgrade" fails with a package conflict due to wanting to install the "util-linux" package:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  util-linux
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 35.6kB of archives.
After this operation, 101kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable/main util-linux 2.12r-4nexenta7 [35.6kB]
Fetched 35.6kB in 0s (156kB/s)
(Reading database ... 24597 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.12r-4nexenta7_solaris-i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12r-4nexenta7_solaris-i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/getopt', which is also in package getopt
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12r-4nexenta7_solaris-i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

This should be a quick fix for someone willing to add a diversion to the getopt package.

[Jason Upton (wavejumper00)]

dpkg-divert added to debian/preinst and debian/postrm files like in the m4 package. Rebuilt and uploaded.

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

I still get this when upgrading:

Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.12r-4nexenta7_solaris-i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12r-4nexenta7_solaris-i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/getopt', which is also in package getopt

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

Seems the repository snapshot containing the uploaded package was not released. The new getopt package does implement the divert correctly.