Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > I may be wrong, but if it contains absolutely no files, dpkg will erase > the old files before installing the new package, isn't it? > I'd say the package must contain the same files as the old one and clear > base.list in the postinst. If a new package contains all the files of another package dpkg will notice that and mark the older package as removed. It's the `disappearance trick', which was used for example in the move from modules to modutils. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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