On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:11:24 -0400
Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?

Nope.

> 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.

It checks both mtime and md5. This is *usually* sufficient, although
some packages install files with tampered-with mtimes.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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