Hi,
sry for leaving out the details in the first place. I'll put them in-line:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023, Christian Heusel wrote:
On 23/10/10 05:28AM, Genes Lists wrote:
On 10/10/23 02:41, Erich Eckner wrote:
I have two packages, A and B, which both provide the same file X.
...
One possibility is to simply change the unofficial one to install in
/usr/local (all of it /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib,
/usr/local/var and so on. That way nothing will conflict.
This is (one possibility for) the second option, that I mentioned, which I
was afraid might break a lot of stuff on my machines :-/
Packages should _never_ install to /usr/local as per the Arch Linux
Packaging Guidelines[0]!
good to know, thanks!
In general conflicts=(...) or rename is the way to go, usually the
problem is mostly present for binaries and then renaming them is the way
to go, see [1][2] for an example.
I am also happy to help if you post some more detailed information!
The official package is tar, which now includes a /usr/bin/backup binary
(script), that conflicts with the backup script, which I wrote myself and
packaged in
https://arch.eckner.net/os/x86_64/hardlinked-backups-1.7-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
resp.
https://git.eckner.net/Erich/archlinuxewe/tree/hardlinked-backups/PKGBUILD
They provide different functionality - or at least, providing and
conflicting tar is no option for me :-D.
I see, that the root cause (and the "clean fix") is to rename the backup
script in my package. However, I was hoping for a "hack" to simply tell
pacman to ignore /usr/bin/backup from tar. The problem with the "rename
/usr/bin/backup to /usr/bin/hard-linked-backup" approach is, that this is
hooked up in cron and systemd timers/services, so backups run
automatically (and I'm afraid, I'm also calling it *somewhere* manually to
back up). Also, I'm a bit unsure, how to avoid such situations in future /
for other packages. But I feel, like there is no general solution to this
issue.
best,
gromit
[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_etiquette
[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/minio-client/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads#L38
[2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/minio-client/-/blob/main/minio-client.install?ref_type=heads#L2
Thanks for your answers! Regards,
Erich
