>>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:28:44 -0500, David Ward <[email protected]> said:
> I have a custom deb that conflicts with something in my kernel deb (which
I
> don't wish to mess with). I'm wanting to do --force-overwrite. Anyone
have
> a suggestion? Maybe there's a way to download the package from my local
> repository so I can install it later manually from a class?
There's a unpack feature in install_packages, that downloads and
unpacks but does not configure a package. I guess this would also fail
if there are conflicting files or packages. I think the easiest way is
to write a hook, which calls
aptitude -o Dpkg::force-overwrite=yes install <package name>
I hope this works.
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regards Thomas
