On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 09:28:29AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:47:15AM +0200, Marc Espie said that > > You won't get any cookie from me, because you're attacking this from the > > wrong point of view. > > the basic premise, perhaps incorrect was, that i don't > touch the packages i modify, just overwrite a couple > of files and delete some behind the back of the system. > it seemed logical.
No, you cannot quite do this kind of thing. There are good reasons why it can't work. You should first cut up what you're goind into parts so that you're actually updating one package. The package *is* the minimum amount of granularity we support. We won't go down to the file level. It's ways too complicated and too dangerous. At some point, I was considering allowing shared files between packages. I gave up, it's too dangerous. The only files that get split away from packages are shared libraries, and they have very specific semantics, and it took several revisions of the tools to get all scenarios right...
