On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:33 +0100, Tom K wrote:
> > I had thought that pacman should either upgrade over the old version or
> > inform me on uninstalling the old one first? PKGBUILD can be found here:
> > http://www.krill.nu/arch/NetworkManager/cvs/PKGBUILD
> >
> >   
> As I understand it, replaces= doesn't work as you would think it should. 
> You need both of the following:
> 
> conflicts=(gnome-network-manager)
> provides=(gnome-network-manager)
> 
> as well. 
> 
> pacman will deduce from those entries that gnome-network-manager should be 
> removed before network manager is installed, and will prompt the user to 
> confirm the removal.

Thanks, this works. Manpage should perhaps be a little clearer on
this ;-) Ought to be a quite common use case(?)

/Tor


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