installing rpm -- changing dependencies

[Tim Gruene <tg@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>]

Hi,

I am running debian-sarge on a P4 with an ATI graphics board ATI provides
drivers as rpm-packages for.
I converted the rpm-package into a deb package and could install it saying
dpkg --install --force-overwrite fglrx_4_3_0-9.8.25-1.i386.deb
the overwrite flag is necessary because
	/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
from xlibmesa-gl is replaced by this packages.

However, updating of any packages now gets stuck (using either dselect or
apt-get upgrade) because xlibmesa-gl is prevented from overwriting
library.

Is there a way to tell the system that libGL.so may be provided by either
packages and should simply be ignored? So far I resolved the problem by
	deinstalling fglrx
	upgrading the system
	reinstalling fglrx with --force-overwrite
but that seems very awkward.

Cheers to any help,

Tim


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