Comment 2 for bug 897303

Revision history for this message
Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 897303] Re: bacula-common-mysql uninstallable due to conflicting files

Excerpts from Serge Hallyn's message of Wed Nov 30 22:34:16 UTC 2011:
> Yup, the line:
>
> debian/tmp-install-mysql/usr/lib/bacula/libbaccats* usr/lib/bacula
>
> is in both debian/bacula-common.install and debian/bacula-common-mysql.install.
> It should be removed from debian/bacula-common-mysql.install. (As bacula is
> in main this should presumably wait until after soft freeze.)
>

I actually just tried that last night, and this produced a "dummy" libaccats that
was unusable by any of the directors. In an offline conversation with zulcss, it
sounded like there may be a bug in 5.2.1 and a fix in 5.2.2.

> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897303
>
> Title:
> bacula-common-mysql uninstallable due to conflicting files
>
> Status in “bacula” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /tmp
> /bacula-director-mysql.template.319468
>
> (Reading database ... 14901 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking bacula-common-mysql (from .../bacula-common-mysql_5.2.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bacula-common-mysql_5.2.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/bacula/libbaccats.la', which is also in package bacula-common 5.2.1-0ubuntu2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/bacula-common-mysql_5.2.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bacula/+bug/897303/+subscriptions