how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I'm loading 4 packages, of which 2 conflict with each other. (thus i cannot install them both at the same time). dput thus fails .. what argument do i pass dput to tell it to go ahead and upload without the inbuild check. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/elinks_tmp# dput *.changes $USER not set, will use

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before uploading it. Have you tried this yet? On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 22:42 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, I'm loading 4 packages, of which 2 conflict with each other. (thus i cannot install them both at the same

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before uploading it. Have you tried this yet? Yes. I've installed all individual packages (elinks, elinks-doc, elinks-data, elinks-lite)

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
If nothing else, dput is a python script you could temporarily disable check - or better extend it with an option which will do so. On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
Oh, also to force installation of conflicting packages you could do something like: dpkg --force-all -i *.deb But this is not the best way to handle this, I think, it would be better to disable check in dput. On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 00:03 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:53