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Re: how to fully replace another package



On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not.
> Why is this file a conffile?  I didn't see any obviously configurable
Historical reasons? It does not really matter, the hotplug.d/ interface
will have to be supported by udev+coldplug until udev will become
mandatory.
(When writing coldplug I moved everything to /lib/hotplug/ just in
case...)

> parts in it.  If it were either wholly be moved elsewhere (/sbin) or the
> guts of it moved elsewhere, and only a trivial shell that calls it were
> left here, would your problem be solved?  (Well, I suppose this problem
> would remain: how would you guarantee upgrades were only made from fixed
> versions of hotplug -> coldplug, and not older ones?)
Right.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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