On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > Why are we going to this trouble? If you want to rename package a1 to a2, > simply make a2 conflict and replace a1 -- dselect or dpkg will do > the rest. If you want to make 'upgrade' automatic, then you'll also > need to upload a new version of the a1 package (empty would seem to > be feasible) that depends upon a2. > > And yes, I just tried this. It works, using dselect with the apt method > anyway. I installed a version of a1 that did not require a2, and then > created a new version of a1 that did, and then add a local archive that > had both the new version of a1 and a2 in it to my apt sources.list file. > Dselect->update,select,install worked just fine. > > Also went back to the original a1, and ran dpkg --install a1.deb a2.deb. > That also worked. > > There's no need to make the dummy packages do anything. In particular, > the xfonts-* packages already have the necessary replaces/conflicts. The > only thing necessary is to upload new xfnt-* packages with the necessary > depends. Branden has indicated that he's not interested in doing that.
I don't think Branden realised that the conf/repl/prov trick will automatically deinstall the xfnt packages. My understanding of his objection was the ugliness of having them hang around. I have Cc:ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] into this email. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
