Forcing Conflict Resolution

Occassionally, a package installation will fail because of a conflict with a file that already exists in the target directory. By default, epkg will only remove the pre-existing file if both of these conditions are met:

The pre-existing file is a symlink which points under the Encap Source Directory.
The pre-existing file is a symlink which points to a non-existent file.

Conversely, here are some situations in which epkg will not remove the pre-existing file:

The pre-existing file is a symlink to somewhere other than the Encap Source Directory.
The pre-existing file is a symlink to an existing file under the Encap Source Directory.
The pre-existing file is not a symlink.

If you encounter one of these situations and you want to force epkg to remove the pre-existing file anyway, you can use the -f flag.

Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>