Re: making update packages.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about updating a library though.

Upgrading a library works the same as upgrading a package. Autopackage
will complain if the library you are trying to upgrade breaks some
other installed package (but only for other autopackages). Autopackage
will assume backward compatibility for minor versions, so upgrading
1.2 library to 1.4 will not break packages that require 1.2 (there are
exceptions to this -- a package can specify that it requires 1.2 and
nothing newer IIRC)

If your library should be parallell installable, you have to give it
another shortname, for example libfoo2 which is different
(incompatible) from libfoo. This obviously requires some work on the
libfoo packager side to make sure files don't collide.

-Isak

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