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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:33:12PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> I've been suggesting renaming packages appropriately, but the idea's |
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> been shot down with 'We use upstream names' a few times already. |
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One unavoidable problem that will come up as a result of renaming |
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binaries to avoid collisions, is that if some other package expects them |
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by a specific name, it will have to be patched as well (I've seen a |
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Makefile that used dev-util/par). |
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> Still, I cannot restrain myself from hacking down your example from |
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> above. It's just too good an oportunity to miss. :) |
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Congratulations, you've found a bug. |
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We keep trying to squash the critters, but they proliferate like crazy. |
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Package collisions like this are actually really hard to detect in an |
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automated fashion (without installing every package you want to test). |
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We don't have any comprehensive database of the files that a package |
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installs (at least that I'm aware of). rpmfind and other databases exist |
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for other distros (packages.debian.org has this functionality too). This |
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data would probably come up as a by-product of a build tinderbox |
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(inside a Xen instance maybe?). |
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[snip bug data] |
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Would you mind copying this into a bug report, for the appropriate |
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maintainers? (they might not be reading this thread) |
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> Fix these collisions, and I'll tell you how to fix the problem with |
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> their names. |
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Actually, we are at somewhat of a chicken and egg problem, as it makes |
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it a reasonable amount of sense for the non-colliding package name to |
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reflect the name of the binary. I think it would be worthwhile to see if |
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there is any sane naming convention other flat-namespace distributions |
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have adopted for a package name with collisions, and try to stick to any |
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existing name scheme. |
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(See for example 'aggregate' and 'aggregate-flim', both packages are |
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known as 'aggregate' by upstream - they were developed independently, |
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without any knowledge that the other exists. They do roughly the same |
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thing, in two very different ways, but still have a slight |
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non-overlapping featureset). |
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