Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Brian May
> "SZALAY" == SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SZALAY> Okay, okay. Let's be more specific. openssh-client and SZALAY> openssh-server both Conflicts with ssh (<< 1:3.8.1p1-9) SZALAY> ntp package also Conflicts with ntp-server package. So I SZALAY> don't understand how

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 18:00 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Yes, since Replaces can have two possible meanings. Please read the > Policy document for details. Okay, okay. Let's be more specific. openssh-client and openssh-server both Conflicts with ssh (<< 1:3.8.1p1-9) ntp package als

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:45:34PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Hi All! > > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > If the new package has a "Replaces: old_package", it will *take over* > > the conflicting config_files from the old package [1]. > > And there are Packages

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > If the new package has a "Replaces: old_package", it will *take over* > the conflicting config_files from the old package [1]. And there are Packages with Replaces field filled but Conflicts field not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Michael Biebl wrote: > > If this two is true (and I think so) then you couldn't install the old > > ssh package and the new one. So how can you do this? > > If the new package has a "Replaces: old_package", it will *take over* > the conflicting config_files from the old packag

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Biebl
SZALAY Attila schrieb: > > 2) No two package can contain the same _installed_ file. > > If this two is true (and I think so) then you couldn't install the old > ssh package and the new one. So how can you do this? > If the new package has a "Replaces: old_package", it will *take over* the confl

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-08 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All, On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:33 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > What happened: Somehow, I seem to have transitioned from sarge ssh to > openssh-client/-server directly without first installing the 'ssh' > transitional package because I installed some package which depended on > openssh