On 03/25/2012 12:44 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys, I need to know if makepkg/PKGBUILD can handle a check to see whether the same files provided by two different packages (which are not dependencies of each other) exist in the file system to prevent an installation failure due to conflicting files? The situation is this. Both tdesdk and tdesvn both provide: /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+file.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+http.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+https.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+ssh.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn.protocol Since neither package is a dependency for the other, tdesvn needs to provide the files if tdesdk isn't installed and tdesdk needs to provide the files if tdesvn isn't installed, but avoid the conflict if both are installed. Is this possible? If they were dependencies of each other, then that would be an easy fix. If both were assured to be installed, that would also be an easy fix by rm'ing the files from one package or the other, but in the case when either or both can be installed -- How do you handle this?? Thanks for any ideas you have.
This is simple. Split those files out of both packages and put them into a separate file. Then make both packages depend on the new split-out package.
