Re: dpkg: multiple files supplying package

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

Lukas Nellen writes ("Re: dpkg: multiple files supplying package "):
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> But which is the package that gets installed last? It happened to me
> that I had two versions of the same package around and dpkg picked the
> newer version first - so I ended up having the old version installed,
> since it was installed last. To be more precise, this happened when I
> did a bulk install using `dpkg -iGROEB'. I don't know how the order of
> installation is determined in this case - how can I make sure that the
> newer version of a package gets installed last in this case?

Make sure that only the newer version is in the archive.

In principle I could make the behaviour better here, but it's tricky
to do this without risking accidentally breaking some important
error-recovery stuff, and I don't have much time.

Ian.