Re: Replacing a package with a newer, renamed version of itself.

[Roger Ward <roger.ward@natnet.com>]

Conflict against all versions before the transition package.

This should work, right?

Thanks,
Roger



Quoting "Leo \\Costela\\ Antunes" <costela@debian.org>:

> On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:22, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > the conflicts and replaces make a new install of the package over the old
> one 
> > go smoothly.  However, it will not cause apt to automatically move to the
> new 
> > package.
> 
> A good solution IMO is to keep a fake (empty) package of
> radiusd-freeradius that depends on the new freeradius package, that way,
> if someone does have it installed, apt-get will try to upgrade it and
> then install the new package. You'll have to dump the Conflicts though,
> or else apt-get won't let you upgrade a package that'll be removed on
> the same run.
> 
> Hope I've been helpful
> 
> Cheers
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> 
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