This one time, at band camp, Daniel Stone wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 10:02:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> I think I used something like
>> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ximian | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs apt-get
>> install --reinstall
>>
>> which depends on having a newer package versions in the non-ximan
>> packages... if not it gets a bit messier.
>
>Um, what do you think --reinstall is for?
Reinstalling the package with the same version number or newer, so please
explain if I've got this wrong:
debian: foobar_1.0_i386.deb
ximian: foobar_1.0-ximian.1_i386.deb
If foobar hasn't been updated in the debian repository, then won't the
ximian one be reinstalled, as it has the same or newer ('-' being greater
than '' in the sort order) version number?
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