[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: > 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"
[Marc proves me wrong.] /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install says: dpkg --install --auto-deconfigure and uses: dpkg -iB Maybe it matters which order it goes in? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.