Errr... It should be noted somewhere.. ideally in the naming of the override mechanism itself... that such overrides, are only TEMPORARY. file collision is a "hard stop". while you can override collisions that may be present on the build farm; packages that collide with other packages present in "current", will not be accepted into "current".
On 12/8/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: > File collision checking has been introduced at the package release > level some time ago. Some packages have been (rightfully) rejected on > the grounds that they provided a file already existing in another > package in the catalog. The inconvenience in the process was that > there was no checking against file collisions during maintainer's > work. Only after the package was submitted for release, and the > release manager tried to insert the file into the database, potential > collision problems were detected. I've set out to tackle this problem > and implement file collision checking at checkpkg level. > > The change in checkpkg was substantial, as the whole database backend > had to be reworked to a new model. Overall, the change involved 43 > files, with 3825 line insertions and 1979 line deletions (so far). > The new code currently breaks compatibility with automatically managed > cached databases, which is how checkpkg must work outside the > buildfarm. In the meantime, checkpkg is ready to be tested on the > buildfarm. > > When running the new version of checkpkg, you may see something like: > > CHECKPKG_OVERRIDES_CSWlibnspr4 += > file-collision|/opt/csw/share/aclocal/nspr.m4|CSWlibnspr4|CSWmozilla|CSWsunbird > > This means, that the file /opt/csw/share/aclocal/nspr.m4, if your > package CSWlibnspr4 was inserted into the catalog, would be owned by 3 > packages: CSWlibnspr4, CSWmozilla and CSWsunbird. > > If you want to check the new version, please clone my git repository. > Here's an example usage scenario: > > cd ~/src > git clone -b collisions \ > http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/opencsw.git \ > opencsw-new-checkpkg > ln -s ~/src/opencsw-new-checkpkg/gar/v2 opencsw/pkg/<software>/trunk/gar > > If you get an error while running it, please drop me an e-mail with > the full error message and a stack trace. > > Maciej > _______________________________________________ > maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers > .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::. > _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
