On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:21:59PM -0700, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
> I am packaging a package - A - which conflicts with only some files in
> another package - B - (A depends on the rest of B's files). If A also
> contained the files in B with which it conflicts, I think I would tag A
> Replaces: B and be done; but A doesn't contain these files, it simply
> conflicts with them, so they must be removed.
>
> How do I stop files from B from being installed? If I simply put rm
> <files> into A's postinst script, the files could be reinstalled the
> next time B is upgraded.
Consider that I'm not DD yet, but I think that's wrong way.
You should probably try to split B package to B, and B-common.
Then A & B could depends on it.
I don't think that removing non-A's files in A's scripts is good idea.
regards,
fEnIo
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