Cross posting to -mentors, for obvious reasons. On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:41:43AM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote: > I have just updated blt and blt-dev. One of the changes was to move > something from blt to blt-dev, and another change was to move something > from blt-dev to blt. Now when apt updates to the new versions it reports > errors in both packages wrt trying to overwrite a file which belongs to > the other package. > > - Firstly, according to the packaging manual, --force-overwrite is the > default installation method, so why is an error (and not just a warning > reported).
In the unstable period, --force-overwrite should be turned off to catch these errors. > - Secondly, what is the fix? Do I make blt replace blt-dev, and blt-dev > replace blt? Do this: Package: blt [...] Replaces: blt-dev (<= OLD_VERSION) Package: blt-dev [...] Replaces: blt (<= OLD_VERSION) Obviously, OLD_VERSION is the version of the packages that included those files. > Surely this is not the best solution?? Yes, it is. The Replaces: field in the control file doesn't mean "replace that whole package with this one"[1] but "replace files in this package with files from this one". [1] For that, use combination of Replaces: and Conflicts: . -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
