Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerome> A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles > Jerome> and other non-conffiles configuration files that I move from > Jerome> wwsympa to sympa and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm. > > Joey> I'm afraid you're on your own there; dpkg does not deal with > Joey> shared conffiles well when the older package is removed I think > Joey> it removes the conffile. > > Surely you mean "when the older package is _purged_"?
Yes, purged. > I have done "dpkg --remove oldname ; apt-get install newname" many > times on my system, and I think it works. It is ok with remove. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
