I know that at one point the dselect/dpkg combination had fairly serious
problems if the same package name existed with multiple versions. I learned
this the hard way when I installed from a mirror that had not run to
completion and thus had not deleted the older packages.
Dpkg installed _both_ versions of the packages at the same time and really
got screwed up.
The reason I bring this up is that there are now several package that are
_intentionally_ in the distribution multiple times with different versions:
Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/text/gs_2.62-2.deb
non-free/binary/gs_4.01-2.deb
Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/text/gsfonts_2.62-2.deb
non-free/binary/gsfonts_3.53-3.deb
Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/tex/lyx_0.9.23-1.deb
contrib/binary/lyx_0.10.1-1.deb
These are already causing a bit of a problem with 'dftp' and I'm wondering
if they are/will cause problems with dselect/dpkg.
*** Bruce ***
What's the "official" word on duplicate packages this way?
Brian
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