Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 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.
Wichert and I discussed this long ago, and modifying dpkg.cfg would be the way
we would do it in the future.
On another note(not for woody), would it be beneficial to have this file not
be a conffile? Maybe if there was an example in doc/, like apt has.
Additionally, I have a patch to fix the handling of out-of-disk-space(dpkg
aborts in this case, currently it doesn't). The one minor issue left is that
the error message in this case is sub-optimal.
However, I can not do this upload, as I have to fly tomorrow at 6:50am(it's
10:45pm now), to go to a funeral. I'll be back saturday night, but this means
either Wichert uploads without the disk space fix, or he does it himself(it's
simple), or we upload with just the dpkg.cfg tweak.
My direct question to you, Anthony, is whether you would accept this disk
space fix. It's been a long standing bug, that I introduced in 1.8, I
believe. I'd really like to have it fixed and in woody, it's just I wasn't
pushed into finding the problem until woody was deep frozen.
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