On 07/11/2013 08:41 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> said:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:54:36 -0500
Rex Dieter wrote:
Ditto. I've been meaning to write a packaging draft to the alternatives
guidelines to enforce the idea that packages MUST own their 'alternatives'
targets
But how can multiple packages trade ownership of the same file?
It isn't a file, it is a symlink, and all the packages should have the
same symlink (pointing to /etc/alternatives).
Almost.
These alternatives-symlinks are created post-install, i.e. rpm doesn't
know about them.
This allows %ghost-ing them, i.e. letting rpm know about the fact these
symlinks are present, while the contents of these files/symlinks is not
known to rpm.
In other words, the java rpms could use something along the lines of this:
%files
%ghost /usr/bin/java
%post
[...]
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java [...]
[...]
I am using this approach, e.g. Coin2-devel to handle
/usr/bin/coin-config, which may point to different versions of
"config-scripts".
Ralf
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