I ran into this exact problem some time ago with elvis. What I did was to create a bunch of zero byte files (think touch) and install them on top of the files from the old package. I then deleted the files in the post init script. This allowed dpkg to mark all files as removed from the old package, but marked a lot of non-existant files as part of the new package. I couldn't think of anything else that worked (except to conflict with all the old stuff). The right thing is to get dpkg fixed. I submitted a bug on this one a LONG time ago.
-Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- > > the dpkg replace function works only for the first package listed. > one of my package (isdnutils) replaces more than one package (vbox, > isdnlog, xisdnutils). maybe someone has an idea how i can make sure, > that these three packages are not installed ? (will something in > preinst work ?). i have no idea what i can do, till this bug in dpkg is > fixed... > > any help would be great. > > thanks, andreas > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
