On 05/ 5/11 09:34 AM, Rinaldo DiGiorgio wrote:
On May 5, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 05/ 5/11 08:15 AM, Rinaldo DiGiorgio wrote:
On May 5, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Alan Steinberg wrote:
Hi Rinaldo.
Having the same pathnames in multiple packages violates a basic packaging rule
we have had in place for a very long time for Solaris. There have been very few
exceptions to this rule.
Not asking for one. :)
Why must the files be in both packages?
I think the correct thing will be to create a separate package with the common
files.
In this case we have a development package that includes items in the runtime
package due
to a previous convention. let me see if I can undo the convention.
If both packages need the same files, that would seem to indicate that the
runtime package should be a dependency of the development package.
That is what I thought but the "developers' have been condition to have a
separate version of the runtime package and I am trying to understand
how disruptive this would be to developers, do they make changes to the runtime
in the development package for testing and development and expect to have the
system runtime unmodified?
If the development package is simply a different version of an existing
package, I'd think that would be simply the same package with a
different version number, or as David mentioned, a package with a
different name that excludes the other one.
-Shawn
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