Re: Bug#39818: samba-common: Upgrading Samba from the Slink version (fwd)
Le Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 02:58:52PM -0400, Eloy A . Paris écrivait:
> Currently, Samba will not cleanly upgrade from the Slink version, at least
> not on the first run. The problem is that some files were split off into
> samba-common, but there's no way for dpkg to know that it should unpack the
> new samba *before* the new samba-common. This results in errors of 'trying
> to overwrite...' when attempting to unpack samba-common and forces the user
> to rerun the install several times (or fix it by hand :-) ) I believe that
> the correct solution is for samba-common to Conflict: with older versions of
> Samba.
Add a "Replaces: samba" to samba-common. This way dpkg is allowed to
overwrite samba's files.
I don't think that adding the Conflict will help to correct the
"overwrite" problem, but it will forbid the user to install only
the new samba-common without upgrading samba.
Cheers,
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