Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.18
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
When I get an error because one package overwrites a file from another
file, I often retreat to using --force-overwrite. After all, I'm a
developer and I should know how to recover (e.g. by reinstalling the
other package).
But also I'm always thinking:
"What if it will overwrite another file"?
dpkg will stop at the first overwrite error, the --force-overwrite will
then allow any file to be overwritten. I'd love to see some more fine
grained control here, e.g. by having --force-overwrite=otherpackage
which would only allow files from this other package to be overwritten.
That would probably cover 95% of the cases where I get this error.
Most of the time these overwriting errors occur when one package is
missing a Replaces: header and a file was moved from one package to
another. The latest example was libqt4, where the file
/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/codecs/libqcncodecs.so
apparently was moved from libqt4-gui to libqt4-core.
So basically I'd like to be able to say
dpkg --force-overwrite=libqt4-gui /var/cache/apt/archives/libqtcore4*.deb
And get another error if e.g. that package would try to overwrite /bin/sh
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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