On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:59:54AM +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > A similar problem occured upon update of nvidia-kernel source. > The maintainer of that package suggests that this could be reported as a > wishlist bug for module-assistant, given all of the trouble that can be > caused > by simply extracting a tar file on top of an existing directory. Should the > option "clean" be the default action in "m-a a-i package"?
Well given -O can prevent overwrite of the existing directory, which m-a seems to like doing all the time, doing a clean first by default would be very handy. If it extracts the tar file, doing a clean of the target first would make things a lot safer. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
