Re: Debian: Protect files from apt overwriting them?

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Author: Kevin Brown
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Debian: Protect files from apt overwriting them?
> when I to an apt-upgrade, it overwrites /usr/bin/sendmail if an update
> has occured to some package, exim I think. In my situation
> /usr/bin/sendmail is actually just a symlink to qmail's sendmail wrapper
> therefore I want to tell apt to never overwrite this file, can this be
> done?


Why not just remove the offending package that keeps overwriting the qmail
symlink and then not worry about it since you don't need the package since you
are using qmail...
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