Re: Re: [Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB RPM packages pulled, packagers wanted

David Nebauer <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> There is one further problem: the 'dos2unix' script supplied with refdb
> is going to conflict with an executable of the same name supplied by the
> 'sysutils' package (actually, '/usr/bin/dos2unix' is a symlink to
> '/usr/bin/fromdos').  It was never a problem until now since refdb
> installed to '/usr/local/bin' while the sysutils version lives in
> '/usr/bin'.  Of course, since debian policy requires the debian version
> of refdb to install its scripts/binary files to '/usr/bin', the two
> files now clash.
>
> There are a number of possible solutions:
> 1. I can always remove the 'dos2unix' and 'dos2unix.in' files and
> manually strip out any related plumbing in the relevant make files,
> 2. The build system could check the OS and not install the file if it
> detects a debian OS, or
> 3. Rename the script.
>

The cleanest way is to rename the script. I guess there are quite a few
implementations of this kind of tool out there, all with the same name. Putting
a 'refdb_' in front of the filename should be all it takes to avoid conflicts.

regards,
Markus


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