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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