On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:40:33AM +0200, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 13:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > No, it's a general problem: dpkg won't notice that a conffile has been > > > moved from one package to the other, no matter whether it declares > > > "Replaces" or whatever. There's simply no solution within dpkg at the > > > moment.
> > Where do you get this? Conflicts:/Replaces: has been used quite > > successfully to transfer ownership of conffiles for, e.g., the Xorg > > packages, without spurious prompts. > in the case of the xorg packages, were the original "owning" packages > still present in any form when dpkg configured the new package? or were > the conflicts versionless and the packages removed? The example I have in mind is x11-common, which has an unversioned Conflicts/Replaces on xfree86-common, superseding that package in etch. An example of a conffile that has changed ownership between these two packages is /etc/X11/Xsession. I don't know what happens if there is a versioned Conflicts/Replaces instead, and the conflicted-with package remains installed in a newer version as a result. It's certainly possible that doesn't work nearly as smoothly, a conclusion supported by your original post. I do know also that beginning with the dpkg version in etch, the Conflicts: is no longer required when moving conffiles, it's possible to use Replaces: by itself. > also, if you have an answer to the original question it'd be > appreciated. i'd really really like to avoid using ucf, since there's > something like 40 conffiles shared between the packages. but having > asked on #d-d a few times as well as here and not having heard anything, > i'm afraid i'm going to have to bite the bullet on this one as frank > suggests. After an upgrade and answering all of the conffile prompts, does /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles still exist and reference these files? Depending on what dpkg is really doing here, it may well be possible to handle the conffile transfer in maintainer scripts. (And I thought dpkg.org once had recipes for exactly this, but unfortunately the site has been down for some time now. :/) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
