Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:23:07PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: >> > A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles and other >> > non-conffiles configuration files that I move from wwsympa to sympa >> > and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm. >> >> I'm afraid you're on your own there; dpkg does not deal with shared >> conffiles well when the older package is removed I think it removes the >> conffile. > > I'm not sure but if sympa has the "Replaces: wwsympa" then the file > should be owned by sympa and not wwsympa, so when purging wwsympa, the > configuration file should be kept. > > Of course, if wwsympa is purged before installing sympa, then you lost > the file. And if you add a conflict, then wwsympa will be simply > removed (and not purged) by apt ...
On automatic upgrade, there won't be any problem because dpkg is used with the remove option. I only have to hope that the user will never purge the package. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
