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Re: Bug#36252: apt: apt always overwrites



Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Carl R. Witty wrote:
> 
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.3.4
> > 
> > Apt should have a configuration option to allow calling dpkg with the
> > --no-force-overwrite option.  (Or, if it has such a configuration
> > option, it should be better documented.)
> 
> It does and it is fairly well documented, read the apt.conf man page and  
> search for "How APT calls DPkg"

Sorry about that.  (I did my documentation search by searching for
"overwrite" in /usr/doc/apt.)

Carl


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