[uClibc] uwoody

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Apr 30, 2004 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been having major problems with the uclibc build root environment 
> (segmentation faults from all the binaries built, e.g. /bin/ls), so I'm 
> experimenting with uwoody. It looks very nice, but a few things tripped
> me up.
> 
> I can't install uwoody-dev because it conflicts with the ppp package:
> 
> Selecting previously deselected package uclibc-dev.
> (Reading database ... 4712 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking uclibc-dev (from .../uclibc-dev_0.9.26-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/uclibc-dev_0.9.26-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/include/net/vjcompress.h', which is also in 
> package ppp
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> And indeed, vjcompress.h is in both packages. Any ideas on a solution for 
> this? (I'm not a Debian expert and I've never built my own .debs before).

This is a bug in uclibc-dev.
As a temporary workaround, you can do a
	dpkg --force-overwrite -i ppp_2.4.1.uus-4_i386.deb
to force the ppp package to overwrite these two header files.

 -Erik

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