Re: diversion/conffile
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:57:37PM -0600, Adam Heath 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.
Sure you can, we've been doing it for years now :) It doesn't actually work
100% but hey...
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