Re: Where's /bin/kill ?
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:48:39PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > It used to be that when dpkg installed a file with --force-overwrite
> > it wouldn't delete the file till both packages which provided the file
> > were removed.
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 11:42:24PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Are you sure that was ever the case? There were warnings about overwrites,
> detailing exactly how files could get lost this way, when I first joined
> the project. The documentation was already old at that time.
I remember talking with Ian Jackson about this very issue, and I
remember testing for this behavior.
Of course non-equivalent files of the same name would be a problem even
with that behavior.
--
Raul
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