Renaming only the catalog name for a package

Rafael Ostertag raos at opencsw.org
Wed Nov 6 10:50:24 CET 2013


Hi Dago

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:46:09AM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Rafi,
> 
> Am 06.11.2013 um 10:39 schrieb Rafael Ostertag <raos at opencsw.org>:
> > I face the following situation: The package `CSWpango' has `libpango' as
> > catalog name. Now, I would like to give it only a new catalog name so that I
> > end up with `CSWpango' and the catalog name `pango'. How do I do that, without
> > breaking everything?
> 
> 
> The catalog name is not very important in terms of upgrades as only the package
> name is used for pkgutil. Do you want to keep any files (like pango-view) in it?
> 
> If yes just change the catalog name, keep the file and make it depend on all libs
> that are required by packages currently depending on CSWpango so the libs are pulled
> in if needed.
> 
>   PACKAGES += CSWpango
>   # CATALOGNAME_CSWpango is default
>   PKGFILES += $(call baseisadirs,$(bindir),pango-view)
>   RUNTIME_DEP_PKGS_CSWpango += CSWlibpango? (all of them)
>   ?

Yes, that's the case. Thanks for the help.

cheers
rafi


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