Re: [Fink-devel] libgda3 vs libgda4 (conflict)

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Alexander
Hansen<[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
>> Both gnome/libgda.info and gnome/libgda-3.1.5.info provide "libgda" package.
>> Something should be done to distinguish those.
>>
>>
> (Let's not crosspost here.  One list is enough.)
>
> (Provides has a special meaning in a Debian-style packaging system.
> libgda is in the "family" of these two .info files in fink's nomenclature)
>
> (This would be in the unstable tree)
>
> That's not really necessary.   As the situation stands, we have:
>
> libgda, libgda4-dev and libgda4-shlibs from the older libgda-3.1.5.info
> libgda, libgda4.0.4-dev and libgda4.0.4-shlibs from the newer libgda.info
>
> libgda-3.1.5 is still accessible to fink:
>
> fink dumpinfo -fallversions libgda
> Information about 9155 packages read in 2 seconds.
> allversions:
>        3.1.5-3
>  b      3.1.5-5
>        4.0.2-2
>
> (3.1.5-3 is the stable tree's libgda)
>
> and one can install it, if needed via
>
>        fink install libgda-3.1.5-5
>
>
> So we _could_ get rid of the 'libgda' package in 3.1.5-5, but it's not really necessary.

As long, as they have the same name it is not possible to install both
of them at the same time. But it is possible to make them available at
the same time if we give different names to them. Files of these
packages do not conflict. Only info-files do.

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/

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