Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:49:18PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 11/11/10 13:46, Michael Schroeder escribió:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:28:11PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > I have been playing around with newer, multithreaded implementations of
> > > bzip2 and gzip and is my impression that we need to provide
> > > "update-alternatives" to them, so users are able to select their
> > > favorite tool.
> >
> > Is "update-alternatives" really neccessary? Wouldn't different
> > packages be sufficient?
>
> I believe it is, as there are tons of scripts/tools that refer bzip2 or
> gzip with full paths. :-|

Keep It Simple Stupid and package the new binaries as /usr/bin/bzip2 and
/usr/bin/gzip then all scripts and tools will work even without
update-alternatives.

And with zypper it's even possible to switch between the old and the new
packages.

Lars
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