On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 02:14:55PM -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Matthias Matousek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Matthias Matousek wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:12:21PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:10 +0200, Matthias Matousek wrote: > >> > > Hello, > >> > > > >> > > I am currently maintaining the masqmail package in aur. masqmail is a > >> > > small mail transfer agent. Last week a new version 0.3.0 was released > >> > > which has no compatibility to the 0.2 branch. > >> > > The masqmail developer recommends users who already use masqmail to > >> > > stick with the 0.2 branch and new users to take the 0.3 branch. To make > >> > > that possible there needs to be a package for each branch in the aur. > >> > > I'm not sure how I should handle that. I was thinking about creating a > >> > > second package "masqmail-0.3" in addition to the currently existing > >> > > package "masqmail". I wasn't able to find anything about such issues in > >> > > the packaging guidelines. Are there any suggestions how this should be > >> > > handled? > >> > > > >> > > Thanks, > >> > > matou > >> > > > >> > As I understand, convention is to rename the old branch to masqmail-0.2 > >> > and update masqmail to 0.3. You could include a post-install file to > >> > inform users on updating that they may want to stick to masqmail-0.2 > >> > > >> > Alternatively (and this may be better) is to delete masqmail and create > >> > masqmail-0.2 (which replaces it) and masqmail-0.3. This of course would > >> > be a bit more future-proof if upstream is going to make releases like > >> > this often. > >> > > >> > >> Thank you very much for the answer. I guess I will go for the second > >> option, then. > > > > I created masqmail-0.2 now and added a replaces=('masqmail'). But I was > > still able to install both packages. Does masqmail need to be deleted > > explicitely? > > > > well, it will replace masqmail-$PKGVER-$PKGREL.pkg.tar.gz if it is > installed on the system, but it won't replace > masqmail-0.2-$PKGVER-$PKGREL.pkg.tar.gz . It will only complain > about the other version being installed if you put a > conflicts=('masqmail-0.2') in the -0.3 PKGBUILD. (and vice-versa in > the -0.2 PKGBUILD.) > > Hope that clears things up. > > G > > *note* $PKGVER and $PKGREL aren't strict expansions of the variable in > the current PKGBUILD, I'm just using them in place of the asterisk > glob to prevent confusion.
I added a conflicts entry which makes it complain about other installed masqmail versions. But I still want to replace 'masqmail' with 'masqmail-0.2'. But pacman or yaourt does not try to replace masqmail.
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