Custom package conflicts

[Tim Cutts]

On 22 Jan 2010, at 1:00 pm, David Ward wrote:

> I guess the problem with this approach is I need to take the custom  
> pkg out
> of the package_config list, since I will be installing it from a  
> hook.  But
> then the pkg will no longer be pulled into the mirror on my CD.  How  
> do you
> get a package or any file onto an fai-cd without having it be  
> handled by
> install_packages?

It's perfectly possible to have packages which overwrite files in  
other packages, but rather than doing a force-overwrite, you should  
probably put appropriate stuff in your local custom package's postinst  
and prerm scripts to do the appropriate magic with dpkg-divert to stop  
the packages fighting.  Do that, and the problem goes away.

Tim


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