alternatives: multiple versions for the same package

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Tue May 27 08:53:50 CEST 2014


Hi Riccardo,

Am 27.05.2014 um 01:20 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 09:28, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi Riccardo,
> 
>> 
>> I suggest to make one CSWgnustep-back which uses xlib and registers xlib as
>> alternative. All packages depend on this one. If you want the more elaborate
>> cairo you install CSWgnustep-back-cairo which just ships the changed files
>> from the alternatives and these alternatives have a higher precedence than
>> the xlib one. This is the same way as we do gnuplot. Does this sound reasonable?
> 
> confused, I made a step back: I removed all modulations by commenting
> them out and setup gnustep-back as cairo backend. I commited the
> makefile.
> 
> Right now it fails very early for me:
> 
> ==> Verifying installed package CSWgnustep-gui: ok
> ==> Verifying installed package CSWlibcairo2: ok
> gar/gar.mk:320: recipe for target 'check-prereqs' failed
> gmake: *** [check-prereqs] Error 1
> 
> Any hints?

Yes, look at the above lines which not have „ok“ in them ;-)


Best regards

  — Dago

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