Re: too many conflicts/replaces

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org>]

> 2008/4/7, Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush@debian.org>:
> > > 2008/4/4, Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush@debian.org>:
> >  > > Martin Schr?der wrote:
> >  > >  > I'm trying to create a package that will when installed
> >  > >  > automatically replace all TeX packages on the system with our
> >  > >  > version of TeX.
> >  > >
> >  > > Don't all debian tex packages depend, directly or indirectly, on
> >  > > tetex-base or texlive-base? You probably could create your own
> >  > > -base package that conflicts with those, and then pre-depend on
> >  > > it?
> >  >
> >  > And then I'd get a conflict when installing that package.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> >  Won't apt-get/aptitude handle proper removal/installation actions for
> > you?
>
> If I do this:
> ------------
> Conflicts: texlive-common
> ------------
> I get this:
> ------------
> docscape@dsp:~$ LANG=C sudo dpkg --dry-run -i
> /tmp/qstex-1.0.0-4-i386.deb dpkg: regarding /tmp/qstex-1.0.0-4-i386.deb
> containing qstex:
>  qstex conflicts with texlive-common
>   texlive-common (version 2007-10) is present and installed.
> dpkg: error processing /tmp/qstex-1.0.0-4-i386.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing qstex

Sure.
Try istead this:

- mkdir /var/lib/packages

- copy all your debs to /var/lib/packages

- (cd /var/lib/packages && dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >Packages)
  ignore any messages about missing packages in override file

- add 'deb file:/var/lib/packages/' to /etc/apt/sources.list

- apt-get update

- try installing your packages with apt-get install