Philipp Matthias Hahn schrieb: > Hello! > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> no, afaik this doesn't work. new programs and man pages are added in new >> versions, so you have to make this for each master alternative depending on >> the >> version you upgrade from. plus this approach doesn't work if new slaves are >> added or removed to an alternative. > > The patch only makes the "update-alternative --remove" in the *.preinst > scripts conditional, not the installs in in *.postinst scripts.
ok, will apply this in the next upload. > update-alternative is idempotent, so adding the same alternatives > multiple times does not break anything. You can even add additional > slaves and those get added, IFF you're in auto-mode. They won't > automatically be added, if you changed to manual-mode. > >> It would make much more sense to handle all binaries currently handled by >> separate alternatives in one alternative, but again, dpkg cannot handle >> adding/removing slaves without changing the currently selected alternative. >> >> see #342566 for the problems handling master/slave alternatives. > > Personally I don't care much about slaves: If I manually changed java to > sun-java6, and java didn't had a German manual page than, I don't care if > it gets added in some future verson. (I make the decision now, not based > on some future possibility). If I want that new feature, I thinks it's > reasonable to redo the "update-alternative --config java". it *is* annoying if other commands are handled as slaves as well. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
