On 07 Jan 1999 21:33:48 +1300, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: >> Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and >> the install of the equivs package in a single operation? > >Yes, AFAIK. "dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb"
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src # dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb |dpkg: regarding equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb containing equivs: | smail conflicts with mail-transport-agent | equivs provides mail-transport-agent and is to be installed |dpkg: error processing equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb (--install): | conflicting packages - not installing equivs |Errors were encountered while processing: | equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb |=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src # Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
