On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 15:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:11:50PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Each subpackage can have virtual Provides+Conflicts to indicate one
> > *must* be installed:
> >
> > Provides: cracklib-dictionaries
> > Conflicts: cracklib-dictionaries
> >
> > Then cracklib itself can do the following:
> >
> > Requires: cracklib-dictionaries
> > Suggests: cracklib-dicts-10k-worst
> >
> > And cracklib-dicts-full (replacing old cracklib-dicts) would do the
> > following:
> >
> > Obsoletes: cracklib-dicts < %{version}-%{release}
> > Provides: cracklib-dictionaries
> > Conflicts: cracklib-dictionaries
>
> Is there a way for subpackages to actually contain different files
> with the
> same path/name?
>
My initial reaction is I'd be inclined to use 'alternatives'[1] to
achieve this....
Pat
[1] https://github.com/fedora-sysv/chkconfig
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