[csw-maintainers] Bugreport on alternatives with NFS-shared /opt/csw

[James Lee]

On 17/03/10, 17:00:07, Philip Brown wrote regarding Re:
[csw-maintainers] Bugreport on alternatives with NFS-shared /opt/csw:

> > could someone who advocates shared NFS please suggest something on the
> > user of alternatives in such an environment?
> >  <http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4352>
> >

> I'd like to, but I dont fully understand what "alternatives" is doing.
> you sort of half-explain it, in the ticket.

Would neon would be better served by an auxiliary flag (see ld(1)).
Eg:

Compiled neon (minimal) with:
    cc -G -o libneon.so.0.29.3 -Wl,-f,/opt/csw/lib/libneon-full.so ...
each lib needs linking with its own flag.
Compile libneon-full.so as normal.
Package both to install both in /opt/csw/lib
Make CSWneon the default depend choice.
Users get CSWneon on install via depends but can add CSWneonfull
manually.

This has the effect that when anything looks for libneon.so it will
get libneon-full.so if it exists otherwise just it gets libneon.so


I don't see neon full as an alternative, if you've got it use it.
Neon full is surely an extension, alternatives are when there is a
choice between two files that are both installed.  (Correct me if
I've misunderstood neon full.)  



James