Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:39:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > It'd be relatively straightforward to have the installer enable
> > force-overwrite on "stable" installs and disable it on "testing" installs.
> > But for woody, surely the best thing is to just have base-config munge it
> > (editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if you like) and be done with it? Worrying
> > about changing it from a conffile to something maintained in the maintainer
> > scripts can be done when 1.10.x comes out.
> I don't really want to make base-config mess with this for woody, the
> damn thing has broken enough recently.
Well, our choices are:
* new dpkg release
* new boot-floppies for all architectures that munge it (maybe via
debootstrap)
* new base-config that munges it
* don't fix the problem
A new base-config seems by far the easiest to get right, doesn't need
people to spend a few days building it, and since it's needed anyway...
Cheers,
aj
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