On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 12:45 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 9:03 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 2:49 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On 06/09/2022 20:28, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > We will be creating the packages nodejs-16, nodejs-18 and (in April) > > > > nodejs-20. These packages will be parallel-installable (with the > > > > exception of the -devel subpackages) and provide > > > > `/usr/bin/node-$MAJOR`. We will also take advantage of the > > > > `alternatives` subsystem to populate `/usr/bin/node` from the default > > > > Node.js version for that release, or if the default is not installed, > > > > > > What about Fedora ostree variants? > > > > > > The last time I asked about alternatives, I got an answer that it is a > > > completely NO GO for immutable Fedora releases. > > > > > > > That's one of the reasons why I'd prefer us to use a package to do it. > > > > Each nodejs package could have a subpackage > > nodejs<vermajor>-unversioned-command, which has the following stanzas: > > > > Provides: nodejs-unversioned-command > > Conflicts: nodejs-unversioned-command > > > > And the default nodejs would have a "Requires: > > nodejs-unversioned-command" with a Suggests on the versioned package. > > OK, this is new information for me. I'll have to ruminate on it. > > As for OSTree, it sounds like the main problem is due to > `update_alternatives` using `/var/lib/alternatives` for internal data. > I may take a look and see how hard it would be to move that to > `/etc/alternatives/state`. The openSUSE folks wrote an alternative alternatives implementation called libalternatives that is likely to be rpm-ostree compatible. It works differently from regular alternatives, and I've got a package in copr for it[1]. It might be worth exploring for this... That said, I don't think alternatives makes sense for this case. [1]: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/alts/build/4815991/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
