Hi Jaret,
Indeed, it should be Conflicts instead of Breaks. Thanks for the reminder.
Daniel
On 31/12/16 02:02, Jaret Cantu wrote:
> Let's see what I used in my most recent eudev package:
>
>
> Replaces: udev (<< 215-17ebbian1),
> udev-systemd
> Conflicts: udev-systemd
>
> So it looks like I dropped the B reaks line since my last push to
> Devuan? I guess it was causing some difficulty for me, but I didn't
> document what it was.
>
>
> I took the Replaces/Conflicts from other packages in the Debian repo
> that changed names and had multiple providers.
>
> All of the package names are still "udev-*"; there are just both eudev-*
> and udev-systemd-* flavored providers of them. The "udev-*" ones are
> just meta packages or shims.
>
> I've been bad about pushing to github, but I do have the x86 packages up
> for Jessie:
>
> http://ftp.ebbian.org/ebbian/pool/main/e/eudev/
>
> Looks like I have a few other piddle build fixes in that source since I
> stopped pushing to Devuan, too.
>
>
>
> ~jaret
>
>
>
> On 12/26/2016 08:07 PM, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> Yes
>>
>> Provides, Replaces and Breaks in the correct combination will ensure
>> both complete replacement without recompiling depending packages.
>>
>> Ideally we should also apply those labels also to the systemd-udev
>> package to ensure a complete switching between as well as extend the
>> test suite to ensure the switching between them is tested and works
>> properly too.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 December 2016 9:57:38 AM NZDT, Svante Signell
>> <svante.signell@???> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 18:38 +0100, Anto wrote:
>>
>> Hello Hendrik, I think that was the idea of Jaret to change
>> all package names into * eudev*, instead of keeping them the
>> same as Gentoo does. But I could never made it properly
>> working as a lot of packages still depend on mostly libudev.
>> So I just followed Gentoo's approach in which we have
>> to choose either to install udev or eudev, even both use the
>> same package name. Perhaps if I would recompile all of the
>> packages to make them depend on libeudev, it should work. But
>> due to my lack of knowledge and experience on Debian
>> packaging, I didn't dare to start.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Isn't the Debian package Depends: Replaces: and Conflicts: exactly
>> designed for that?
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