Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable
Bruce Perens writes:
> You can add the --force-overwrite flag to make this a complaint rather
> than an abort. I think Ian was attempting to get the problems fixed by
> being draconian about them. I don't think this is going to work for the
> public or beta 1.1 upgrade, though. We might have to wire --force-overwrite
> on before then.
Yeah I know about --force-overwrite :) I wouldn't like to see that behaviour
as default though. I'd rather get a warning but have the file NOT overwritten
by default. I mean that's why Ian added this behaviour in the first place.
So files aren't overwritten.
Andrew
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Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au
Perth, Western Australia howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au
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