Re: problem replacing package
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:19:08PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> Problem:
>
> I tried to unpack libogg0 package, change its name to libogg0-k6, and add
> these to control file:
>
> Provides: libogg0
> Replaces: libogg0
> Conflicts: libogg0
>
> However, when trying to install this, i got some errors about other packages
> depending on libogg0, thus libogg0 was not removed, and my package was not
> installed.
That would require versioned dependencies on virtual packages (versioned
Provides:) to work, but they don't. You'll probably have to use
something like a high epoch instead.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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