Re: mt-st and cpio conflict
Andy Guy writes ("mt-st and cpio conflict"):
> Recently my backup scripts stopped working because I upgraded to a new
> version of cpio which has a /usr/bin/mt, mt-st also provides an
> /usr/bin/mt but it got overwritten with the cpio version.
>
> The mt-st version has nearly a super set of the commands supported by
> mt-cpio except for 'asf'. If we could add this to mt-st (dosn't seem
> too difficult) mt could be removed from cpio. [mt-st also has extra
> commands that are only understood by the scsi driver but the "normal"
> commands will still work].
>
> The big problem here is that depending on the order of installing or
> upgrading packages you get a different effect. Should dpkg do
> something about this or perhaps some script run at the ftp site detect
> these types of conflicts (filenames common to two packages which don't
> Conflict: fields) ?
dpkg will be changed at some point to detect these problems and refuse
to install one or other of the packages.
mt-st should use the new `diversions' mechanism, which has been
provided for exactly this kind of thing.
Ian.
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