On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:12:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I do not follow your reasoning in this last paragraph at all, and the > proceeding paragraph has a flawed premise.
> There are more file conflicts present between potato and woody than > there are in woody itself. Therefore we have to find a means to get > force-overwrite turned on on upgrade. base-config cannot do that. You're right. Bugger. Wichert, I don't see any way around this: either dpkg should have --force-overwrite on by default and some way of overriding it in dpkg.cfg, or the dpkg.cfg conffile shipped in dpkg.deb needs to have --force-overwrite included. We *could* probably do the latter by kludging around with base-files' postinst or something similar, but that seems likely to be more pain than a new dpkg upload. So a new dpkg upload, with # uncomment this if you're clueful --force-overwrite added to dpkg.cfg seems the simplest fix. Am I missing anything? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif
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