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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
