Thanks for your suggestion Jonathan. This is actually what I am doing at the moment manually, I did not know that something like divert exist, how could I miss that? :).
Nonetheless, I would prefer that the system keeps track of replacements itself. Now I have to call dpkg-divert at pre- and postinstall to restore the original. Is it too complicated to have a kind of automatization for divert as a feature in deb-packages? Regards Felix > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:36:10 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: RFC: Proposal to combine diversions and Replaces into > DEBIAN/replaces > > Sato Mayamoto wrote: > > > I host several private repositories that offer packages that contain > > files and configurations for ubuntu clients. these files often > > replace files of different packages, without breaking the package. > > > > My problem is indeed that, once I am forced to remove the packages > > that I installed previously from our private repositories, the > > original packages are left broken. > > Perhaps diversions would work. :) > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120614203610.GD3537@burratino >
