marc@mit.edu (Marc Horowitz) writes:

>is there a "right way" to deal with a package which replaces files in a nother
>package?  in particular, I want to create a package for a newer Getopt::Long
>than the one which ships with perl.

I've played with that a while ago for an updated p5-CGI module.  I think with
a pre-install and post-deinstall script you should be able to squirrel away
the overwritten files in /var/db/pkg/$PKG_NAME directory and restore them on
deinstall.

Of course, there will be the usual problems with the db(3) database, but
nothing a 'pkg_admin rebuild" couldn't fix. :-)

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Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

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