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On Sun Feb 25 16:15:46 2007, I wrote:

> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
> ...
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved? Thanks.

On Sun Feb 25 16:20:22 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez replied:

> That depends. If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when
> you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to
> rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.

and on Sun Feb 25 16:27:56 2007, Ron Johnson said:

> Getting your packages installed will/should solve that, though.
>
> What error messages were you getting?

Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made:

dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to
overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils
dpkg -i alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
dpkg: error processing alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap', which
is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686

However, I also listed all the files my deb files would install (with
dpkg-deb --contents *.deb). For lib, there were 80 files that already had
versions installed, most but not all from libasound2. For driver, there were
13 files that already had versions installed, all from
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686. As I said, I ran "make install" anyway but now
wonder what will happen if I try to upgrade libasound2, for example.

Thanks again.


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On 02/25/07 18:46, Steve Kleene wrote:
> References: <200702252114.QAA20605@syrano.acb.uc.edu> <20070225215152.GD11378@santiago.connexer.com> <45E2072D.80704@cox.net>
>
> On Sun Feb 25 16:15:46 2007, I wrote:
>
>> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
>> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these
>> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried
>> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
>> ...
>> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
>> involved? Thanks.
>
> On Sun Feb 25 16:20:22 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez replied:
>
>> That depends. If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when
>> you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to
>> rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.
>
> and on Sun Feb 25 16:27:56 2007, Ron Johnson said:
>
>> Getting your packages installed will/should solve that, though.
>>
>> What error messages were you getting?
>
> Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made:
>
> dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
> dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to
> overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils
> dpkg -i alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
> dpkg: error processing alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap', which
> is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
>
> However, I also listed all the files my deb files would install (with
> dpkg-deb --contents *.deb). For lib, there were 80 files that already had
> versions installed, most but not all from libasound2. For driver, there were
> 13 files that already had versions installed, all from
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686. As I said, I ran "make install" anyway but now
> wonder what will happen if I try to upgrade libasound2, for example.

One way to find out... :\

Note that in any "install your own s/w" situation, there will always
be issues when you upgrade conflicting packages. You've just got to
reinstall.

For example, I manually installed the nvidia binary driver, so
whenever apt upgrades xorg, it installs it's own libglx.so into
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions, so I have to manually recreate a
symlink from libglx.so.1.0.NNNN to libglx.so.

BTW, why wouldn't alsa-source 1.0.14~rc1-1 from experimental solve
your problem?




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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
>
> Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made:
>
> dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
> dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to
> overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils

This is really bad. How did /usr/bin/nm get into your package?

> dpkg -i alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
> dpkg: error processing alsa-driver_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap', which
> is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
>
> However, I also listed all the files my deb files would install (with
> dpkg-deb --contents *.deb). For lib, there were 80 files that already had
> versions installed, most but not all from libasound2. For driver, there were
> 13 files that already had versions installed, all from
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686. As I said, I ran "make install" anyway but now
> wonder what will happen if I try to upgrade libasound2, for example.
>
How did you build this package?

Regards,

-Roberto

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Hello Roberto.

Roberto C. Sanchez, 26.02.2007 04:20:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
>> Here are the only errors I got with the deb files I made:
>>
>> dpkg -i alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb ->
>> dpkg: error processing alsa-lib_1.0.14rc2-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to
>> overwrite `/usr/bin/nm', which is also in package binutils
>
> This is really bad. How did /usr/bin/nm get into your package?

This a (at least to me) known bug of Checkinstall. It sometimes includes sytem
binaries like the above, gcc and such in the package. Don’t ask me why.


Regards, Mathias

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