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

Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Ah; hadn't actually checked the contents.  The DocFiles conflict, but
that would be fixed with a name change, too.

-- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison


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