On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:59 -0800, Joe Smith wrote: > Is this something that's fundamentally impossible or is there some way > to achieve what I need?
I believe this is fundamentally impossible given your description of the constraints; as you've discovered, dpkg will take out a lock on its status files, so the only way is to pass both packages on the command line (possibly using apt). dpkg has no dependency resolution of its own. You could pass --admindir in the invocation in the preinst to get dpkg to temporarily look at a different copy of its files; then merge back the changes outside of dpkg without respecting the locks somehow; but this would be a very silly thing to do, and probably still impossible. :) -- Tim Retout <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
