Hello Michael
>I am not aware of anyone other than us having implemented this yet. I >seem to recall that we discussed this on IRC and came to the conclusion >that you could simply refuse to install if that file was found. I Yep I remember that quick discussion :) Refusing to install is possible, even if in upgrades sounds like a bad user experience (e.g. think about a do-release-upgrade to a new debian/ubuntu release that blocks, and require a manual user action) >wonder whether dpkg will even allow you to install a package which>overwrites >a file already on the system, assuming you create it too? I guess not. unless I hack a preinst where I check the file content and I delete/overwrite it manually >The last would be very welcome of course. Does that sound reasonable? I don't think we can handle it that way without many and many hacks :( refusing to install might be the best thing to do, on both sides (for you it should be simple as "dpkg -l |grep virtualbox-guest") G. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
