Re: mixing stable and testing

[vikki@neuromancer.homelinux.com (Vikki Roemer)]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
> In same directory:
> 
> dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc
> cd metalog_0.7beta
> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
> cd ..
> dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb

Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the following output:
neuromancer:~# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb 
dpkg: regarding metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb containing metalog:
 syslog-ng conflicts with system-log-daemon
  metalog provides system-log-daemon and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing metalog
Errors were encountered while processing:
 metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
neuromancer:~# 

How can I uninstall syslog-ng and install metalog?  dpkg won't let me
uninstall syslog-ng before I install metalog because a plethora of packages
depend on system-log-daemon.

TIA.

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