On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Max Horn wrote: > At 5:52 Uhr -0700 01.02.2003, jeff whitaker wrote: > >Ben: Thanks for the update. I'm somewhat at a loss of how to proceed > >with a 4.3.0 package. Since it contains thread support, it should replace > >both xfree86-base and xfree86-base-threaded. At the same time, I'd like > >to merge the -base and -rootless variants. So, the new package should > >replace xfree86-base, -base-threaded, -rootless and -rootless-threaded. > >Unfortunately, with all the intertwined dependencies I think this is > >impossible. So, I think we may have to resort to telling people to use > >the dreaded "dpkg -r --force-depends" in order to make this transition. > >Have you found a way around this with your experimental package? > > You analysis is right, this is impossible. I tried it (and you, too) > some time after chrisp left, and already then (with only two > packages) it was impossible, without --force-depends. > > > > Cheers, > > Max >
Max et al: Can you think of a way to automate the "dpkg -r --force-depends" when upgrading to xfree86-4.3.0? Is there any way for fink to pass these arguments to dpkg? Perhaps it could be done in the preinst script? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
