Re: [Fedora-packaging] Specfile suggestion for subpackages with differently linked binaries
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Michael Schwendt wrote:
"ulogd" in Extras is similar with regard to sub-packages
for database
support.
Thanks for that suggestion. I'll take a look at it, and see what I can
do
about it.
Or does it create a single executable only, which is linked to a
single
chosen database library? In that case, your packages would conflict,
because you would have two executables, one linked against mysql, the
other linked against pgsql. Bad.
That is the case.
"binaries with the same name" sounds like a conflict. If
you want
mutually exclusive sub-packages ser-mysql and ser-pgsql, you still need
non-conflicting file names and a mechanism like "alternatives" to
activate the desired database version after installation.
Hmpf.
That's what I feared.
I think, I'll have to do some more hacking on this .spec.
bye,
andreas