Hi, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives explains how alternatives should be done in Fedora, however it does not seem to address the case of converting an existing package to use alternatives. Specifically the problem arises when a file is changed to become a %ghost. It seems rpm keeps the old file around as a ghost and so update-alternatives does not create the new symlink. I remember this happening when emacs introduced alternatives a good while back: at the time I worked around it just by removing emacs and reinstalling it. Adding: %pre if [ $1 -gt 1 ] ; then if [ -f %{_bindir}/%{name} -a ! -L %{_bindir}/%{name} ]; then rm %{_bindir}/%{name} fi fi seems to be one way to handle this. Is there any better way to do this or is the above solution good enough? If so maybe I should ask FPC about updating Packaging:Alternatives to include this. (I kind of wish these kind of idioms would be defined as rpm macros.) Jens -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
