making versioned libpng-dev

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Thu May 7 12:35:32 CEST 2015


Hi Riccardo,

> Am 07.05.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> You can only have one obsoletion, I suggestto obsolete CSWlibpng-dev
>> with CSWlibpng16-dev and take out the obsoletion from -15.
> 
> Ah, that's a kind of limitation, I'll remove it from -15 then.
> 
> But how can I upload the obsoleted package? I don't have don't have it. Please don't make me build another branch just for that, it is a nightmare otherwise.

The _stub package should be built automatically when you specify
it as obsoleted. Is it not built for you?

>>> Ok I will upload only the dev packages, not the rest. Actually since they are platform "all" there is no sparc/intel, there will be four: for solaris 9 and for solaris10, one for 15 and one for 16.
>> I suggest to make -dev *not* archall by convention. There is the risk of differences which
>> are hard to detect due to endianess and/or bitwidth. You can then upload all packages at once.
>> It is mainly important to upload the obsoletion and the obsoleted package at the same time
>> or you will get errors about duplicate pathes.
> 
> It was already done that way and I left it so, I just versioned the dev package. I hope it can be fixed later, I'm actually for gradual updating, even if this small update became a big mess.

Just take out the ARCHALL, you can do that any time.


Best regards

  — Dago

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