Martin, > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.ja...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 4:20 AM > To: Bryan Evenson <beven...@melinkcorp.com> > Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] Cleanly moving files from one package to another > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 08:19:40PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm on poky/dizzy-1.7.3 and I'm using opkg for a package manager. I have a > few script files that are part of one package that really belong with another. > So I updated both recipes, removed the file from one recipe and added it to > the other recipe. I built everything, made the opkg feed repo and tried to > upgrade with "opkg update; opkg upgrade" to see how clean the upgrade > was. For each script file I moved from one package to the other I get an > error > message of the form: > > > > * check_data_file_clashes: Package A wants to install file > /path/to/script/file > > But that file is already provided by package * B > > > > I know I can do "opkg upgrade --force-overwrite", but I'd like to make > recipe changes so that it upgrades cleanly. All I've done in the recipes is > remove the script files from the FILES variable and the do_install step of one > recipe and added the script to the FILES variable and do_install step of the > other recipe. I know update-alternatives can be used if more than one > package provides the same binary, but is that necessary in this case when > transferring ownership to another package? Is there anything else I can do in > the recipes to prevent the opkg install errors? > > Have you tried to set > RREPLACES_<pkg-new> = "<pkg-old>" > ?
I haven't tried that because I'm not replacing a package. Both packages still exist on the system and are both needed, it's just that ownership of one of the files is being transferred from one package to another. Would I still use RREPLACES even if I want to keep both packages on the system? Specifically in this case, I have some script files for scheduled tasks that were part of one of my self-made packages. However, they really belong with cronie since this is what is calling the scripts. So I removed the script files from my self-made package and added them to cronie. My package has other files still associated with it (that do belong with it) installed on my system. So I want to keep both packages on my system, but I just want to change ownership of these script files from my package to cronie. Is RREPLACES the tool for this job? Thanks, Bryan > > If the old package should be removed completely during opkg upgrade, then > you'll need to set whole combo, that is RREPLACES,RCONFLICTS,RPROVIDES. > > -- > Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
