Hello all, I hope I have the right list. If not, just kindly point me in the right direction.
I am attempting to develop my own .deb packages that customize a debian installation for our network. Some of my packages attempt to divert files out of the way in preinst before unpacking my custom files in their place. A good example is autofs. My autofs configuration package will attempt to divert /etc/auto.master in preinst, and unpack my own /etc/auto.master in it's place. But, when I try to have the autofs packages and my autofs configuration package installed at the same time, I get some errors back from my preinst script: | Unpacking autofs (from .../autofs_4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-10_i386.deb) ... | Selecting previously deselected package libhesiod0. | Unpacking libhesiod0 (from .../libhesiod0_3.0.2-15.1_i386.deb) ... | Selecting previously deselected package autofs-hesiod. | Unpacking autofs-hesiod (from .../autofs-hesiod_4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-10_i386.deb | ) ... | Selecting previously deselected package tiem.autofs-config. | Unpacking tiem.autofs-config (from .../tiem.autofs-config_1.0_all.deb) ... | tiem.autofs-config::preinst::install (new version) | *** WARNING: Cannot divert file: | File: /etc/auto.master | File does not exist | *** WARNING: Cannot divert file: | File: /etc/auto.media | File does not exist | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tiem.autofs-config_1.0_all.de | b (--unpack): | trying to overwrite `/etc/auto.master', which is also in package autofs | tiem.autofs-config::postrm::abort-install (new version) The error messages are from my preinst script, which checks for the existence of the files-to-be-diverted before attempting to divert them. I thought I had this licked, because I made my autofs configuration package (tiem.autofs-config) Pre-Depend on autofs and autofs-hesiod. I thought that doing so would force dpkg to configure autofs and autofs-hesiod *BEFORE* installing my tiem.autofs-config. What *should* I be doing instead? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
