On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:12:58AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:49:38 +0300, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Is there a tool to check for disallowed conflicts, or a check in > > lintian or linda? > > I think there is a Contents file on most mirrors > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/, for example. Now, one just > has to look for commas in the second column; for example, the first > few instances of this in Sid's Contents-i386 are: [...] > > Now, one could parse this, and use grep-available in clever > ways to see if the packages conflict, and their priorities.
I have a really hacky tool available that I used to produce such a list of packages to look at. I even posted it to some list somewhen, one could probably dig it up using google. I don't seem to have committed it to my personal CVS repository (silly me) so I don't havee it available currently here at Debconf. The real problem is that you afterwards have to actually install all these possible problematic packages since you can't automatically decide wether they handle their conflicts with diverts... It should easily be possible to combine that with the planned install tests of packages though... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
