On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better > than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient > considering the number of users installing tetex. > > Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Marcelo Magallon writes: > > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with > > teTeX > > > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", > > "cool", > > > > > etc. > > > > > > > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the > > > > replaces. > > > > > > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless > > we > > > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on > > > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect > > [R]emove > > > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more > > > > Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted > > instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the > > preinst script it is to late.
Sounds like dpkg is screaming out for a pre/post unpack script. That would at least partially solve some of the tex problems, the preunpack script could run dpkg --purge before it started. Thoughts? Jason
