also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1742 -0300]: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will > > refuse any try to break any file owned by existing packages. > > That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall? > According to Martin Krafft this can still seriously wreck your > system?!
If a checkinstall created package somehow modifies a file (like /etc/passwd) during the installation, then that file will be removed when the package is deinstalled. I think that was the only real problem with checkinstall. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "nicht durch zorn, sondern durch lachen tötet man." - friedrich nietzsche
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