Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

[Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com>]

Geert Stappers wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote:
> > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package 
> which
> > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a
> > dependency)?"
> Dependency means that a package with a foobar script
> depends on the foobar interpreter.
>
> An example of a `replace` are in vim:
> Replaces: vim-rt, vim-tiny (<< 6.0), vim-perl (<< 6.0), vim-python (<< 
> 6.0), vim-tcl (<< 6.0), vim-tty (<< 6.0), vim-gtk (<< 6.0)
>
> Provides: editor, vim-rt
I don't want to have the package replace the other package, I just want 
to "fine tune" the prerequisite package.

> dspsyco
>
> >From its description:
> Description: Debian packages of system configurations
>  Dpsyco introduces the concept of configuration packages. It is a special
>  form of debian packages that is applied on top of the original debian
>  packages. With this you can add users, groups, apply a file skeleton,
>  patch things and more. Observe! No such configuration packages should be
>  uploaded to the debian archives. This kind of things are intended to be
>  created and used by the system administrator only.
Well, this sounded exciting. I went and looked at it and read the web 
page. Maybe the documentation doesn't do it service but... the two 
things I got from it were A) "Danger Will Robinson!" , "there be nasties 
here laddie" and B) its for managing user/group ids--didn't say anything 
really about autofs mount maps.

Eric the Red