Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Paludis doesn't currently pay any attention to package renames, since
> we haven't found a good way of doing them. The easy way of handling it
> is to uninstall and reinstall.
> 

Is there any reason that you couldn't do it the other way around
(reinstall and uninstall), assuming you turned off collision-protection?
  Should the new package over-write the old one, and then the install
would do nothing since it would detect modified files?  Unless it looks
at MD5s of course - those might match up.

I'd just as soon not take down the webserver.  I guess I can do that in
my case, but for other packages this wouldn't be a great solution.

I am using the prelink-workaround plugin - not sure if that has an
impact on the modified-file-protection (maybe the binaries would get
deleted with the plugin - or maybe not).

Thanks for the tips!
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