Oh, also to force installation of conflicting packages you could do something like:
dpkg --force-all -i *.deb But this is not the best way to handle this, I think, it would be better to disable check in dput. On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 00:03 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > dput says: "please install package locally, so to verify that it > >> > installs cleanly before uploading it." > >> > > >> > Have you tried this yet? > >> > > >> > >> Yes. I've installed all individual packages (elinks, elinks-doc, > >> elinks-data, elinks-lite) > >> > >> Elinks, elinks-doc and elinks-data go together. > >> > >> elinks-lite conflicts with the above, so i had to remove them and then > >> tried elinks-lite which installed fine too. > >> > >> Anil > >> > > > > > > > If nothing else, dput is a python script you could temporarily disable > > check - or better extend it with an option which will do so. > > > > > I'm wondering how the current version maintainer (Tim) did it. CCed. > > Anil > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
