On 03/24/2012 10:44 PM, 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. > how about tdeproto or the like?
