Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: tor - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175433 ------- Additional Comments From enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2006-07-08 05:38 EST ------- regarding comment #22 (sorry, I forget it) ------------------------------------------ > >- renamed the current main-package into a '-core' subpackage and > > created a new main-package which requires both the 'tor-core' > > subpackage and this with the current default init-method. This > > allows 'yum install tor' to work better; because yum is not very > > smart, the old packaging might install unwanted packages else. > > Humm.. Can you elobrate on what situation would result in unwanted > packages? We had the following situation with the old packaging: | Name: tor | Requires: init(tor) | | %package lsb | Provides: init(tor) = lsb | Requires: lsb | | %package initng | Provides: init(tor) = initng | Requires: initng Assuming you have a minimal system with the 'initng' initsystem but without 'tor' packages. Now When you install 'tor' now, two possibilities exist for the resulting package combination : * 'tor' + 'tor-initng'; this is the probably wanted result and will not bring unwanted packages in * 'tor' + 'tor-lsb'; this will install 'tor-lsb' (which will not work with the initng system) with its huge dependency chain. This option is probably unwanted. yum has a lousy depsolver and will use the second, unwanted option due to the shortest-packagename-wins rule. Therefore, I moved 'tor' into the -core subpackage and made 'tor' a metapackage requiring 'tor-core' plus the subpackage for the current initsystem. This might be tor-lsb for FC4-FC6 and tor-initng for FC7. This eases package installation for people with standard installation doing | # yum install tor and those with initng who can do | # yum install tor-core tor-initng -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review