Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-09 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Matthias Schwarzott [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Matthias Schwarzott [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Well, upstream is just one file/package: vdr-streamdev-0.3.4.tgz What I suspected. Actually, I'm not interested in that package. Otherwise there already would be a fork which keeps that separation. But we want to revert this now, because

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-07 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008, Rémi Cardona wrote: Matthias Schwarzott a écrit : With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged. I would do #1 because it's easier to do and it's the Gentoo Way (tm). Consider

[gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hi there! This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into one media-plugins/vdr-streamdev package. So there seem to be different options: 1. Just create the

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into one media-plugins/vdr-streamdev package. So there seem

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ulrich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] #1 is the default used in the tree. With good reason, IMHO. This is a package manager issue which shouldn't be solved by creating strange dummy ebuilds. Won't the new portage unmerge-on-blocker feature take care of

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Matthias Schwarzott a écrit : With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged. I would do #1 because it's easier to do and it's the Gentoo Way (tm). Consider writing an upgrade guide and post it on Planet Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately. With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die when it reaches your package. With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the package manager

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately. With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die when it reaches your package.