Re: diversion/conffile
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> i have a problem with an init.d script that i move out of the way with
> a diversion to $i.real. however, as i install the new version (which
> is marked as a conffile), i am being asked what to do, overwrite or
> not. but the actual script doesn't exist anymore at that point, as
> it's been moved by the diversion. i thought diversion are to handle
> such cases in a way to let dpkg know about it.
>
> how else should i proceed? not marking as conffile will probably
> result in an error as i am trying to overwrite a file in another
> package.
You can not divert conffiles. I've tried. And I am a dpkg devloper.
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