Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable
You (Andrew Howell) wrote:
> Good point, well then it should work like I said, instead of bombing out
> at that file it should just give a warning, not overwrite it, and continue
> onto the next file in the package.
Which poses another problem:
- sysvinit includes a better "mesg" than in the bsd-utils
- it is supposed to replace the old one
- but it doesn't because the old bsd-utils is still installed
- then bsd-utils is upgraded. It doesn't have "mesg" anymore.
- "mesg" dissapears from the system..
Not that I have a solution for it, but I just wanted to make
you aware of this.
BTW the next sysvinit will conflict with older versions of bsd-utils,
ofcourse, so that this problem will not appear. I hope dselect is
then smart enough to realize bsd-utils should be installed first.
Mike.
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