Domenico Andreoli wrote: > now reading the packaging manual i found this writing: > > "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version > clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package > which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the > conflicted-with package had been completed. This aspect of installation > ordering is not handled by dselect, so that the use Conflicts in this > way is likely to cause problems for `bulk run' upgrades and > installations." > > now i'm not really undestanding the point, is it telling me i'm going > to have problems during upgrade? what does it mean "bulk run"?
A bulk run is something like dpkg --BORGiE. We use to use such command lines for upgrades in the days before apt, when the above was written. -- see shy jo