-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris
Am Samstag, 11. Mai 2002 05:30 schrieb Chris Cheney: > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:44:37AM +0200, Hendrik Naumann wrote: > > If you grep alpha-debs you should be able to deal with dpkg. > > There are plenty of force switches you may need to use. > > dpkg --force-help > > will shows you all of them. > > The only thing force will help you do is fubar your system... > Perhaps you don't recall someone's test debs which removed > /usr/sbin previously. If install fails it will tell you why which > then you can remove the offending packages without needing force. You are right! In the end this is an issue of trust and laziness. Trust in you (or rkrusty befor) and the community that would find such things verry fast. The major disadvantage I see, is that $ dpkg --force-overwrite *.deb will hide the problems I should provide to you as a feedback for debugging the debs. Hendrik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83k9YIfCsAmXJIGERAn4MAJ0SJgAmC6oIwkCqJyQqSTjl5ADbpwCfV3I7 bIkbqzx86bsS4/Vkyb4GX/w= =2jrw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
