On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > > I've put a new revision of the xfree86-4.2.99.901 package in > > experimental/jswhit. This package no longer contains a versioned > > dependency on the old xfree86 4.2.1.1 packages (to allow for an > > upgrade), > > but instead requires a dpkg -r --force-depends to remove the 4.2.1.1 > > packages. I've also put a shell script (upgrade_xfree86.sh) in there > > to > > handle the needed force-removes automatically. Please test it out and > > let > > me know if you think it can be moved back to unstable. I'm 99.9% sure > > there is no other way to upgrade without forcibly removing the 4.2.1.1 > > packages, but if anyone has any ideas please speak up now. Also please > > consider how we will tell users to perform this upgrade - should it be > > via > > a shell script like the one I've created? > > Perhaps in xfree86's CompileScript section, and in a PreInstScript > section, check for 4.2.1.1, and if it exists, die and warn to use the > script instead? >
Ben: Good idea - but I think the "Conflicts: xfree86-base" will cause the installation to die before it executes the PreInstScript. -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
