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Re: diversion/conffile



>>"Josip" == Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:

 Josip> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:14:41AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 >> >> You can not divert conffiles.  I've tried.  And I am a dpkg devloper.
 >> 
 Josip> Sure you can, we've been doing it for years now :) It doesn't
 Josip> actually work 100% but hey...

	I was somewhat surprised by this light hearted flaunting of a
 policy violation.  I can see that policy is not exactly seen to be
 writ in stone, but I would have thought that policy violations by
 design would be at least discussed here, and perhaps noted as  an
 exception to the rule because there is not other reasonable
 solution. 

 >> 
 >> List of package names, please?

 Josip> Oh and if this request is related to

 >> preparing to file a serios bug against linuxlogo unless conviced otherwise

 Josip> then the explanation, IIRC, is that xinetd can't conflict with
 Josip> netkit-inetd because netbase depends on it, and xinetd depends
 Josip> on netbase.

	Well, unless a means is found to have the packages cooperate,
 this is a serious bug against xinetd, isn't it?

	Perhaps the solution would be to have update-inetd somehow
 accommodate both xinted and netkit-inetd, and then have a virtual inetd
 package provided by both, and have netbase depend of this virtual
 inetd package (perhaps not called inetd to allow us not to deal with
 versioned virtual depends).

	This is what the dpkg maintainer says about what xinetd does
 right now:

 Adam> Whenever the diverted conffile is modified upstream, dpkg
 Adam> chokes during it's installation.  Verified by trying it, and by
 Adam> walking dpkg's code.
 Adam> That part of dpkg's code is very hairy.

	manoj
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