On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:06 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
I've just committed a package for xfree86 4.2.99.901 - the lastHrm.
pre-release before 4.3. This package supersedes all the previous xfree86
variants (-base, -rootless and -threaded). However, in order to avoid
requiring a "sudo dpkg -r --force-depends" I've made it depend on new
versions of the xfree86 4.2.1.1 packages which have no "Conflicts". So,
you'll have to compile xfree86 twice to get the upgrade. Sorry, but there
was no other way. Hopefully we can move these to stable quickly and
provide binary packages to ease the pain.
Thanks to all who suggested fixes for the /etc problem - I ended up
following Ben R and Dave M's suggestion of installing directly to
/private/etc.
This worked OK for me when I was building it, but it broke when I tried getting it through apt to my other machine. Apt ended up half-installing things and then xfree86-base's checks for an existing X11 kicked it out. My other machine had my experimental 4.2.99 threaded packages installed -- I dpkg -r --force-depends'd them, so I basically had no X at all when I started.
Why exactly does it depend on xfree86 4.2.1.1? Is it only for the purposes of upgrading?
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