On Tuesday 17 October 2006 03:22, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 21:58 -0400, darehanl wrote: > > and what does packages' refer to? > > "packages'", with the apostrophe, is the genitive form of "packages". > > The context in dpkg is this: > > the name used by other packages' versions > > Here it's the possessive genitive; a paraphrase would be "the name used > by the versions of other packages". > > Normally, one would addd "'s" to the end of a word to create this form, > but this is differnt for words ending in -s. Compare it to: > - "Jack's book" <-> "the book of Jack"; > - "Thijs' book" <-> "the book of Thijs". > > > Hope this clears it up a bit. > Thijs
Eh... I think I'm having trouble with the word 'version,' actually. I have two packages: great_cdr and cool_cdr. Both 'own' the file /etc/cdr.conf. If I understand correctly, dpkg-divert will modify both packages so that great_cdr will use /etc/cdr.great_cdr.conf and cool_cdr will use /etc/cdr.cool_cdr.conf. --local means both packages will be modified; packages' version here means the file /etc/cdr.conf for both packages. --divert-to /etc/cdr.conf.1 will mean use /etc/cdr.conf.1 instead of /etc/cdr.conf. Is this correct? PS: Sorry, I know I have a habit of making simple questions convoluted:-(
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