On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:12:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I do not follow your reasoning in this last paragraph at all, and the
> proceeding paragraph has a flawed premise.
> There are more file conflicts present between potato and woody than
> there are in woody itself. Therefore we have to find a means to get
> force-overwrite turned on on upgrade. base-config cannot do that.
You're right. Bugger.
Wichert, I don't see any way around this: either dpkg should have
--force-overwrite on by default and some way of overriding it in
dpkg.cfg, or the dpkg.cfg conffile shipped in dpkg.deb needs to have
--force-overwrite included.
We *could* probably do the latter by kludging around with base-files'
postinst or something similar, but that seems likely to be more pain
than a new dpkg upload.
So a new dpkg upload, with
# uncomment this if you're clueful
--force-overwrite
added to dpkg.cfg seems the simplest fix.
Am I missing anything?
Cheers,
aj
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