Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
>
> 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.
This is why the distribution is still called unstable :)
I expect that when we're ready to release 1.1 we should be able to
upgrade from 0.93R6 without any problems at all.
With the appropiate conflicts I think we should be able to do this.
Andrew
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factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot
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Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au
Perth, Western Australia howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au
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