Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Michael Biebl wrote: If this two is true (and I think so) then you couldn't install the old ssh package and the new one. So how can you do this? If the new package has a Replaces: old_package, it will *take over* the conflicting config_files from the old package [1].

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: If the new package has a Replaces: old_package, it will *take over* the conflicting config_files from the old package [1]. And there are Packages with Replaces field filled but Conflicts field not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:45:34PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: Hi All! On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: If the new package has a Replaces: old_package, it will *take over* the conflicting config_files from the old package [1]. And there are Packages with

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 18:00 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Yes, since Replaces can have two possible meanings. Please read the Policy document for details. Okay, okay. Let's be more specific. openssh-client and openssh-server both Conflicts with ssh ( 1:3.8.1p1-9) ntp package also

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Brian May
SZALAY == SZALAY Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZALAY Okay, okay. Let's be more specific. openssh-client and SZALAY openssh-server both Conflicts with ssh ( 1:3.8.1p1-9) SZALAY ntp package also Conflicts with ntp-server package. So I SZALAY don't understand how it happened.

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-08 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All, On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:33 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: What happened: Somehow, I seem to have transitioned from sarge ssh to openssh-client/-server directly without first installing the 'ssh' transitional package because I installed some package which depended on

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Biebl
SZALAY Attila schrieb: 2) No two package can contain the same _installed_ file. If this two is true (and I think so) then you couldn't install the old ssh package and the new one. So how can you do this? If the new package has a Replaces: old_package, it will *take over* the conflicting

Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yodel! Since I hate having tons of configuration files lying around from my various tests (and build-dep installing orgies), I do dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -f 3 -d \ | xargs dpkg -P every now and then. Actually, I first look at the list, and this proved very important here... What happened: