reopen 76754 quit On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:42:14PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 21:41:05 +0200 > From: David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> > To: 76754-d...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt: race when installing new packages that conflict with old > ones > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) > > Hi > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 04:24:11PM +1100, herb...@gondor.apana.org.au wrote: > > When apt-get tries to install a new package which conflicts and provides an > > older one, it removes it and then installs the new package with two separate > > dpkg commands. This creates a window where packages depending on the old > > package may fail. For example, when I ran apt-get through dselect today, > > Yes, but this is required to happen. The Conflicts-relation is defined > to require the complete removal of the package the conflict is against > before the new package can even be unpacked. > > So, while unfortunately it is the best apt can do based on the request, > so closing as not a bug.
What you can do is deconfigure the old package, install the new package replacing the files in the old package (the new package should probably have a Replaces header too), and then remove the remaining bits of the old package. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
