Re: advice needed on handling network port conflicts

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 21-Apr-05, 11:07 (CDT), Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> wrote: 
> But if apt-proxy is still installed and running when apt-proxy starts
> up, it will fail because the port is in use.  Should I make the approx
> package conflict with apt-proxy?  Both packages allow the port to be
> changed to something else, so it's not impossible for them to coexist
> (just difficult in their default configurations).  Any suggestions
> or policy pointers here would be appreciated.

Just default to a different port, and suggest in the README.Debian that
people with existing apt-proxy installations can easily change the port
to match. Anybody whose using these tools can probably figure this out.

Steve

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