On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 04:34:16PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 18/11/15 03:31, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>>> "PB" == Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes: > > > > PB> Is $subject possible? > > > > I don't think so, since at the end of %install you have exactly one set > > of files in one buildroot. > > Right. There was talk of potential support for this ages ago: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2002-July/msg00222.html > > > Still, I don't see a reason for the > > subpackages to actually conflict. > > > > PB> Are any other techniques possible? > > > > Install the binaries under separate names and use simple scripts to > > decide which to run (or use alternatives, but ugh.) Install libraries > > into separate paths and use the scripts to set the library path. > > > > If the software uses dlopen, just fix it to open the proper library > > based on the capabilities of the machine. > > Yes not ideal. > What I've done in %post is to mv the conflicting files > from a temp to standard location, overwriting any existing files.
That's horrible for supermin to deal with. Can I ask at least that the non-single-file coreutils version (ie. the normal one) isn't the one which uses the %post script? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
