On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:15:05PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote: > 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?
> Is RREPLACES the tool for this job? Yes, see https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces opkg should work the same. > > 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
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