[maemo-developers] Error installing optified packages in Fremantle SDK

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/10/26 Luca Donaggio <donaggio at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> I've succesfully built a new version of my packages and optified them, but
> now if I try to install them in the SDK to see if they works as expected
> before pushing them to extras-testing, all I've got is:
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/blablabla.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/opt', which is also in package base-files
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>
> I've made through all the steps related to /opt in the SDK when I installed
> the final version as described here [1]:
>
> [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] >rm /targets/FREMANTLE_X86/opt
> [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] >mkdir /targets/FREMANTLE_X86/opt
>
> but, still:
>
> [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > v /opt
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 cthulhu cthulhu 9 Oct  6 16:46 /opt -> /home/opt
>
> and, of course, /home/opt doesn't exist.
>
> Can someone point me to what I'm doing wrong here? Or is there some
> workaround?
>

Have you tried to install your optified packages after you created
/opt directory inside your target?
Did dpkg fail with the same output?


-- 
BR,
Ed