Re: cross-overwrites in packages
Cross posting to -mentors, for obvious reasons.
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:41:43AM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote:
> I have just updated blt and blt-dev. One of the changes was to move
> something from blt to blt-dev, and another change was to move something
> from blt-dev to blt. Now when apt updates to the new versions it reports
> errors in both packages wrt trying to overwrite a file which belongs to
> the other package.
>
> - Firstly, according to the packaging manual, --force-overwrite is the
> default installation method, so why is an error (and not just a warning
> reported).
In the unstable period, --force-overwrite should be turned off to catch
these errors.
> - Secondly, what is the fix? Do I make blt replace blt-dev, and blt-dev
> replace blt?
Do this:
Package: blt
[...]
Replaces: blt-dev (<= OLD_VERSION)
Package: blt-dev
[...]
Replaces: blt (<= OLD_VERSION)
Obviously, OLD_VERSION is the version of the packages that included those
files.
> Surely this is not the best solution??
Yes, it is. The Replaces: field in the control file doesn't mean "replace
that whole package with this one"[1] but "replace files in this package with
files from this one".
[1] For that, use combination of Replaces: and Conflicts: .
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