preston- we should rename gstat to gstatus i guess. it would be nice to have a symbolic link (named gstat) which points to gstatus if firebird is not installed. if firebird blasts the symbolic link... well.. no harm done.
sound ok? any other ideas? -- matt Today, Preston Smith wrote forth saying... > Everybody have a good new year? > > I've just got a bug report from Debian that both ganglia and > "Firebird", an Interbase-based database engine provide a binary > located at /usr/bin/gstat. > > I figure there's a few solutions: > 1) We rename gstat to something else (gangliastat? gstatus?) > 2) We get Firebird to rename gstat > 3) I rename gstat for purposes of Debian packages > 4) Place gstat in Debian in a different location, (not /usr/bin) > 5) The Debian Firebird maintainer and I make ganglia and firebird > conflict, so they both can't be installed at the same time. > > 3, 4, and 5 are less than optimal solutions. Debian packages not > behaving like non-debian ones isn't good, and it seems arbitrary to > make a database engine and ganglia conflict for no good reason. > > Ideas? > > -Preston > >
