Re: May I temporarily move away a conffile of a conflicting package? [Repost]
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 15:10:41 +0100, Andrew Suffield
<asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Currently the exim4-packages cannot provide /usr/sbin/exim (only
>> /usr/sbin/exim4) because exim v3's init script up to version 3.36-4
>> uses something aequivalent to this to check whether it should do
>> anything: [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ] || exit. If you had exim v3
>> uninstalled (but not purged) and installed exim v4 and it contained
>> /usr/sbin/exim both init-scripts would try to run a daemon. The same
>> applies to the cron-snippets.
>>
>Conflicts: exim (<< 3.36-4)
Conflicts do uninstall, but not purge. Hence, the init script and cron
snippets (which are all dpkg-conffiles) stay in place.
Greetings
Marc
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