On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > I thought having a package with > > Provides: compress > Replaces: compress > > would be like > > Provides: compress > Conflicts: compress > > except that the conflict will not appear and I hoped that when the package > was installed any previous package providing compress would be removed > first.
No, that's not true. You need both conflicts and replaces to get the old package uninstalled. > Obviously it does not work. Is this because of virtual packages, or did > I not understand Replaces:? The later I think. A replaces B means package A replaces files from package B. replaces and conflicts together is a special case - the package will be uninstalled automatically. That's useful for package renaming or for obsolete packages that are folded into another package. For example, fileutils conflicts and replaces with color-ls. Guy
