On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 03:14:31PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > No, the new package should be named similar to the upstream source but > > the control file should contain these lines: > > > Conflicts: mdutils > > Replaces: mdutils > > Provides: mdutils > > But what if they currently have mdutils selected, and they don't notice that a > new package called raidtools is there? I want the package raidtools to be > automatically installed if mdutils is installed. How about this? > > Package: mdutils > Pre-depends: raidtools > > Package: raidtools > Conflicts: mdutils > Replaces: mdutils > Provides: mdutils > > This way, as I see it, raidtools will have to be installed before mdutils, and > when raidtools is installed, it will deselect mdutils. Any problems with this? As I understand this won't work. mdutils and raidtools contain the same binaries (ok, a different version though). Therefore mdutils will be removed from the archive in favour of raidtools. Another point is that Pre-depends are not supposed for this stuff. It's supposed to help installing packages that need other packages fully working, even at its pre installation scripts. > 2B OR NOT 2B=FF Errr... Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 /
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