Re: help in interpreting the packaging manual
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:40:36PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> now reading the packaging manual i found this writing:
>
> "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version
> clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package
> which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the
> conflicted-with package had been completed. This aspect of installation
> ordering is not handled by dselect, so that the use Conflicts in this
> way is likely to cause problems for `bulk run' upgrades and
> installations."
I think this is for the old dselect methods which simply put all
*.deb files in one (or more) subdirs and called "dpkg -GROBiE .".
When using apt as dselect method as current installations already
default to, apt does the neccessary reordering.
> now i'm not really undestanding the point, is it telling me i'm going
> to have problems during upgrade? what does it mean "bulk run"?
It seems to me that this paragraph of the policy might be
obsoleted by now?
Ingo
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16 Hard coded constant for amount of room allowed for
cache align and faster forwarding (tunable)
-- seen in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/TUNABLE
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