Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Proposal: name the new core package "fedora-ds-core"

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On Friday 16 February 2007 04:12:16 pm Richard Megginson wrote:
> As we found out the hard way, the new Fedora Extras fedora-ds package
> conflicts with existing fedora-ds 1.0.x installations.  I've tried
> Conflicts: fedora-ds < 1.1
> and
> Conflicts: fedora-ds <= 1.0.4
> neither one prevents you from installing fedora-ds 1.1 on top of your
> fedora-ds 1.0.4 installation and removing the admin server and console.
>
> I propose that we change the package naming to reflect the actual
> contents.  So, the current fedora-ds 1.1 would be called fedora-ds-core,
> which is really what it is - the core LDAP server and command line tools
> - the core functionality.
>
> Subsequent packages would follow this convention: fedora-ds-admin,
> fedora-ds-console, etc.  We could then have a fedora-ds "meta package"
> which had nothing in it but dependencies on fedora-ds-core,
> fedora-ds-admin, etc. and perhaps a few scripts, so that you could 'yum
> install fedora-ds' and it would install the same functionality as the
> fedora-ds 1.0.4 package.

This gets a +1 from me 

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE

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