advice on package replacement - qemulator -- > virtualbricks

2011-10-13 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the qemulator package, months ago I was contacted by Daniele Lacamera, Daniele is the upstream author of virtualbricks a fork/replacement of qemulator, he asked me about the possibility of the substitution of qemulator with Virtualbricks. Qemulator is not longer developed

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-08 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to imply that if all files in a package are replaced by a > new package, the old package will 'disappear' and that is the > behavior I was hoping for That seems to be the case, only that (AFAIK) "disappearing" packages end up being in the "r

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-08 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to imply that if all files in a package are replaced by a > new package, the old package will 'disappear' and that is the > behavior I was hoping for That seems to be the case, only that (AFAIK) "disappearing" packages end up being in the "

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nope... In this case, every conffile in one package is also in the other - > thats why the sendmail.list file became empty, and the package *SHOULD* > disappear. conffiles are /not/ the only distinction between removed and purged packages. A postrm c

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nope... In this case, every conffile in one package is also in the other - > thats why the sendmail.list file became empty, and the package *SHOULD* > disappear. conffiles are /not/ the only distinction between removed and purged packages. A postrm

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # dpkg --install *-tls*.deb > Selecting previously deselected package sendmail-tls. > dpkg: considering removing sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls ... > dpkg: yes, will remove sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls. > Removing sendmail in-favour sendmail

Re: package replacement and lack of disappearing...

2001-08-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # dpkg --install *-tls*.deb > Selecting previously deselected package sendmail-tls. > dpkg: considering removing sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls ... > dpkg: yes, will remove sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls. > Removing sendmail in-favour sendmai

Re: Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 04:12:36AM -0500, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote: > > BTW, A better place to ask might be the debian-mentors mailing list.. > > *blushes* > Errrm, ignore that line please, remind me to look at what group I'm > reading next time? /me bops Mercury -- NO ONE expects the Spanish In

Re: Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Carey Evans
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29-Dec-98 Shane Wegner wrote: > > I am trying to install a new and more user friendly version > > of the write(1) utility. The trick is that it replaces /usr/bin/write and > > /usr/bin/mesg. > What you want is to use the /etc/alternatives directory and >

Re: Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 04:10:09AM -0500, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote: > BTW, A better place to ask might be the debian-mentors mailing list.. *blushes* Errrm, ignore that line please, remind me to look at what group I'm reading next time? Zephaniah E, Hull. > > Zephaniah E, Hull. -- PGP EA5198D

Re: Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 01:27:07AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > What you want is to use the /etc/alternatives directory and > update-alternatives. Negative, alternatives only works if all packages which provide the file use it... I think dpkg-divert might do what you need though, however I have never u

RE: Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Shaleh
What you want is to use the /etc/alternatives directory and update-alternatives. On 29-Dec-98 Shane Wegner wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi, > > I am rather new to Debian and am wondering if someone here would be able > to point me in the right direction. So far, when I instal

Package replacement

1998-12-29 Thread Shane Wegner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am rather new to Debian and am wondering if someone here would be able to point me in the right direction. So far, when I install a source package, I Debianize it first. This way I can pull it out again and install it on other systems. I've come across