Re: teTeX kind of broken
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.
>
> > descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex
> > bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a
> > known solution.
> >
>
> The only solution I know is to do it in the right order, but how do
> you enforce this?
Some ideas on workarounds for the dpkg bug:
What about a dummy package tetex-convertion?
tetex-convertion replaces every old tex package.
tetex-convertion conflicts with every old tex package.
tetex-convertion is (pre)required by new tetexpackages
Perhaps, one dummy package for each old tex package could solve the problem if
the above approach fails.
PS: I can't try myself these approchs.
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Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>
Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil
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