On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 04:09 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote: > 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 I'm CCing this to the packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list, as you're more likely to get a useful response from there.
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