Re: teTeX kind of broken
On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
> than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
> considering the number of users installing tetex.
>
> Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de> writes:
>
> >
> > Marcelo Magallon writes:
> > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
> > > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool",
> > > > > etc.
> > > >
> > > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the
> > > > replaces.
> > >
> > > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we
> > > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on
> > > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove
> > > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more
> >
> > Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted
> > instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the
> > preinst script it is to late.
Sounds like dpkg is screaming out for a pre/post unpack script. That would
at least partially solve some of the tex problems, the preunpack script
could run dpkg --purge before it started.
Thoughts?
Jason
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