For a pretty complex system modification I need to replace binaries from several other packages by modified versions. Because I'll need to easily reproduce these modifications and would like to keep things as transparent as possible, I wrapped the necessary changes into a Debian package (I don't want to maintain modified versions of all the affected packages).
In order to be able to overwrite "foreign" files without triggering a conflict, I install diversions for the files in question. As described in the policy manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.html) I used ad "preinst" script with something like this: dpkg-divert --package $our_package --add --rename \ --divert ${dest_name}.org ${dest_name} As intended, the original file versions are renamed before the actual installation. Nevertheless, "dpkg" complains about a conflict and aborts. For the moment, I work around the problem by renaming my versions of the affected files so they can be installed without a conflict. I still install the diversions as described above and in a "postinst" script create symlinks with the original file names pointing to my modified binaries. This works, but is not as transparent as I would like - I would prefer to directly overwrite the diverted files as described in the policy manual. Was there any recent change compared to the policy manual? (I am doing this on wheezy). Did I get something wrong? To my understanding, this is pretty exactly the scenario, that is described in the manual ... Any ideas? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k8ctf7$lq1$1...@ger.gmane.org
