On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 04:35 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > the debian-amd64 port had a major problem (breaks the ld, meaning > everything) caused partially by dpkgs: > > dpkg (1.9.21) unstable; urgency=low > > * Enable --force-overwrite by default in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg > > I think that default is too dangerous. > Hmm? --force-overwrite hasn't been the default for a long time. Specifically dpkg.cfg was moved into the documentation directory. It has been enabled once or twice just before a release as a quick-fix for larger problems that there wasn't time to take care of. It isn't enabled currently. > At least in the case of "Replaces" there should be no overwriting by > the replaced (not the replacing) package by default. This can cause > files to be lost. > Are you sure you're not just seeing Bug #164595 (dpkg only looks at Replaces when installing a replacing package, not a package that has files replaced by another). Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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