On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:49:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't know what happens if there is a versioned Conflicts/Replaces > > instead, and the conflicted-with package remains installed in a newer > > version as a result. It's certainly possible that doesn't work nearly as > > smoothly, a conclusion supported by your original post.
> well if anyone is interested in reproducing this: > - use debootstrap/pbuilder to create a sarge.tgz > - chroot into the sarge.tgz, mounting /proc. > - apt-get install nagios-plugins > - change the sarge lines to etch lines in sources.list > - apt-get update > - apt-get dist-upgrade > - wait for the prompt Done, and: $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles ls: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles: No such file or directory $ So everything works here except that dpkg doesn't recognize the files on disk as unmodified conffiles after changing their ownership, I think. So to fix this within your preinst, you could check whether each file's md5sum matches the known md5sum from sarge, and if so remove the file. If the md5sum /doesn't/ match, the conffile prompt should happen as normal. It's up to you whether you think ucf is a better way to handle this. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
