Re: dpkg: multiple files supplying package

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Lukas Nellen writes ("dpkg: multiple files supplying package"):
> I had problems with dpkg 1.1.3 in the case when I have two .deb-files
> supplying the same package with different version numbers. This
> happened to me when my mirror didn't run completely and I had the old
> and new version of the .deb-file for netstd around. 
> 
> In that case, dpkg reads the two packages and tries to install
> both. The package which got installed (and configured) was the one
> which appeared later in the search order of dpkg. 
> 
> Dpkg gives me a warning about the fact that the same package was
> installed twice. Wouldn't it be better if dpkg could use the version
> numbers in the package to try and resolve the conflict? Is that
> possible?

There should be no problem with installing the same package twice like
that.  You'll just end up with whichever package was installed last on
the system.

Ian.