On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:10:05PM +0200, you wrote:
problems, but wouldn't it be more efficient if coreutils simply
provides mktemp instead of conflicting with it?
No, because then you have a dangling mktemp package. Unfortunately, apt
doesn't get this quite right and I forgot about the necessary
workarounds. Here's what's supposed to happen:
# dpkg -i coreutils_7.4-1_i386.deb
dpkg: considering removing mktemp in favour of coreutils ...
dpkg: yes, will remove mktemp in favour of coreutils.
(Reading database ... 26312 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 7.3-1 (using coreutils_7.4-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
Setting up coreutils (7.4-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
# dpkg -l mktemp
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn mktemp <none> (no description available)
Can't get more efficient than that.
Mike Stone
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