On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:40:36PM +0100, 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."
I think this is for the old dselect methods which simply put all *.deb files in one (or more) subdirs and called "dpkg -GROBiE .". When using apt as dselect method as current installations already default to, apt does the neccessary reordering. > 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"? It seems to me that this paragraph of the policy might be obsoleted by now? Ingo -- 16 Hard coded constant for amount of room allowed for cache align and faster forwarding (tunable) -- seen in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/TUNABLE