On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old > versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got > unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, > essentially). It never did overwrite the file in-place. Changing this > will probably involve radical modifications to setup's internal logic.
Not that big a change actually - we already have the concept of upgrading internally, it just needs to be taught that an upgrade isn't an uninstall + install, but rather an unpack followed by removing files no longer present in the package. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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