Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> schrieb:

> The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package
> which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a
> dependency)?"
>
> The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey
> systems, we want to have our own little package, that "configures" the
> autofs configuration a certain way. So we build this package, and
> cause it to depend on autofs. 

Probably it would be better to generate a package autofs-$ericscompany
and let it Conflict with autofs instead of Depending.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie