On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Benito Mourelo Caldeiro wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:56 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > If "git command" vs "git-command" is the only incompatibility, it should > > be trivial to provide the latter in the package with tiny wrapper scripts > > or even just one that parses $0 and add symlink to it for each needed > > command, or install that script multiple times with different names and > > hardlink them if wanted, or... (see for example rpmdev-md5, rpmdev-sha* > > and friends in rpmdevtools). > > No problem, I build a package from the last SRPM at git-scm.com and all > are in /usr/libexec/git-core. You only need to append it to $PATH if you > you prefer the old mode.
Well, if one needs to do that manually, it's not backwards compatible. And even adding a new dir to $PATH wouldn't help scripts that use absolute paths pointing to the old location of the tools. (I don't have an opinion whether to update git in EPEL or not.) _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
