me.
Package B "Replaces" *and* "Conflicts" with package A: when B is
installed, any files that are also in A will be taken over by B, as in
the "Replaces" only case. In *addition*, any remaining files in A will
be *removed*, and package A will be considered removed fr
kely going to to be incompatible.
Just Conflict with the git package. The overlapping user base is likely
to be nil.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world.
On 18-Apr-99, 22:16 (CDT), John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland writes:
> > Well, conceptually, as far as dpkg is concerned, packages don't own
> > directories in the same way they own files. That's just the list of
> > packages that put
On 17-Apr-99, 23:24 (CDT), Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try "dpkg -S /" ... on my system, this isn't owned by any package.
> even more interesting to try "dpkg -S /etc" ... about 40 packages claim to
> own the /etc directory. :)
Well, conceptually, as far as dpkg is concerned, packages
On 17-Apr-99, 22:20 (CDT), "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Manually getting rid of those *~'s isn't really an answer, either. I think
> a package should have the right to rm -r any directory that's not used by
> another package, empty or not.
(The following example from a dis
On 11-Apr-99, 10:29 (CDT), Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I wonder what should be deleted when purging ?
> a) only the config files
> b) config files and empty directories
> c) every directory INCLUDING files that the user may have installed
>(since without the packa
On 04-Feb-98, 11:33 (CST), Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To make sure I was doing it right, I tried to find where the cron.weekly
> script is copied into the corresponding directory
> debian/tmp/etc/cron.weekly but couldn't find where that happens... So I
> guess that dpkg-buildpackage
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