On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Niall Young wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > #201197: plus sign doesn't override conflicts, > > which was filed against the apt package. > > > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. > > Have emailed Adam several times with no reply, his response contradicts > the man page for apt-get or I'm completely off the mark here. Can > someone confirm that the +- feature does override conflict resolution?:
How many times, and when, did you mail me? I was moving this weekend, and my system was offline. I won't have a connection at home for a few more weeks, so debian work will be spotty, at best(basically, this is no change from my current debian work). A few days waiting is not something you should be complaining about. > > > "Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install. > > > These > > > latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's > > > conflict resolution system." > > > > > > Appending a plus sign doesn't seem to override the conflict resolution, > > > e.g. > > > > > > # apt-get -u install sendmail+ > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > qmail > > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > > sendmail > > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded. > > > Need to get 918kB of archives. After unpacking 1327kB will be used. > > > > What conflict resolution is there? You told apt to install sendmail, which > > it > > is doing. Doing so requires that it remove qmail. Your + does nothing to > > change that. > > I'm confused then, conflict resolution to me would be parsing the > Conflicts line and finding that mail-transport-agent conflicts with > sendmail, thereby uninstalling qmail. If not, what is the man page > actually suggesting? Um, are you dense? Apt is doing exactly what you just described. There was no magical decision here. You told apt to install sendmail. A + doesn't change apt's decision, because apt didn't decide to install sendmail; you did.
