On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:24:35PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> 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?
I always thought it reinstalled it regardless.
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<wart> DanielS: I was keen on RMS that time.
> wart: well what's his justification?
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