conflicting conffiles (was: Name for configuration packages)
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:29:00 +0100, Andreas Metzler
<ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>Just for clarification: Unless Marc has found some magic there will
>probably only be one exim4-config in /Debian/ because an uninstalled,
>but not purged exim4-config-blah (it only contains configuration
>files) and exim4-config-bar cannot coexist.
This raises an interesting issue. Just assume that two packages use
the same file name as a conffile. This is a conflict that looks like
it cannot be resolved for dpkg and apt, since declaring the two
packages conflicting will only remove, and not purge the "old"
package.
Is there a mechanism in place for this? Is it possible to declare two
packages conflicting in a way that foo can only be installed after bar
has not only been uninstalled, but actually purged?
Greetings
Marc
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