On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:20, Patrick Goetz wrote: > A less easily solved problem has to do with auxiliary files. We are heavy > TeX users, and consequently have various TeX gadgets that are not packaged > by Debian. OK, so we have our own tex-utm package containing these > things. What do you do, though, if you want to actually replace a > file from, say, the tetex package with one you've customized yourself? > The package system breaks down at this point, since the local and debian > packages will conflict. There are ways to get around this (forced > installs, etc.) but these complicate package installation considerably.
There is a tool to handle this problem: dpkg-divert (which is part of the dpkg package). Check its manpage to see if it will do what you want. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." I Peter 4:16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
