Re: diversion/conffile
On 18 Feb 2002, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> le lun 18-02-2002 à 19:57, Adam Heath a écrit :
>
> > > how else should i proceed? not marking as conffile will probably
> > > result in an error as i am trying to overwrite a file in another
> > > package.
> >
> > You can not divert conffiles. I've tried. And I am a dpkg devloper.
>
> At least, the linuxlogo package diverts /etc/issue from base-files, and
> it seems to work properly.
Whenever the diverted conffile is modified upstream, dpkg chokes during it's
installation. Verified by trying it, and by walking dpkg's code.
That part of dpkg's code is very hairy.
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