On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:22:36PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:21:02AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Also, is there a way to avoid a dpkg upgrade overwriting /usr/bin/dpkg
> > and (IIRC) divert /usr/bin/dpkg -> /usr/bin/dpkg.real, so that I dont
> > have to remember to redo this step?
>
> man dpkg-divert
>
> It rocks. Hard.
>
> - Matt
Hi Matt,
I thought it was the way but wasnt sure. The man page is a little
skimpy. I did not help. But google found IIRC a debian-*-manual entry.
So: dpkg-divert --package dpkg --add --rename --divert \
/usr/bin/dpkg.real /usr/bin/dpkg did the trick!
Cheers!
-Kev
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