[Fink-devel] Modifying already installed files

[Jeremy E. <je...@po...>]

I'm having a go at porting starlink to macos-- a set of astronomy 
applications and libraries. The documentation for these libraries 
consists of latex hypertext-- so if a user has decided to install 
library A and library B, the documentation of library B has hypertext 
links to library A's documentation.

To do, this, the hypertext utility examines a installed file called 
htx.log, retrieves the needed information, and then appends more 
information to htx.log. However, dpkg treats this as a file conflict, 
and if library A has already installed "htx.log", library B can't 
install it's own copy.

How do I tell fink not to treat htx.log as an immutable object?

Jeremy