On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David R. Morrison wrote: > Jeff, > > What I've just done with the major teTeX upgrade is to put a lot of > "Replaces" and "Provides" lines but almost no "Conflicts" lines. > > What this does is enables the user to upgrade without dpkg complaining. > Any file which exists in one of the old packages and also exists in > the new package is overwritten when the user upgrades. > > A problem could arise if there are stray files in the old versions which > are not replaced during this process, and whose presence would mess up > the program. I'm pretty sure this won't be a problem with teTeX, but > we'd have to investigate things carefully in the case of XFree86. > > However, even in this situation, users could be told that after they > upgrade, they need to remove their old version with "fink remove". > This might actually be a better path than advising them to use the > --force-depends facility in dpkg. > > -- Dave >
OK Dave, I'll try this. It certainly is a lot easier than the myriad of things I've been trying lately. What about people with system-xfree86? We don't want to overwrite those files do we? -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
