On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Gour <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:29:19 -0500 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Greg,
excuse me for not replying earlier...I hit some btrfs bug, lost my parition, had to re-install, restore (older) backup from tapes, re-configure eveything etc.
The trick with that approach as it relates to bogofilter/bogofilter-sqlite is you have to have a separate package for each, but the packages should be linked, not standalone.
OK. That's clear.
In this case bogofilter and bogofilter-sqlite would be linked packages.
I did the above - linkpac and checkout stuff into my folder @localhost.
You would have 2 spec files: bogofilter.spec and bogofilter-sqlite.spec
Now some questions:
1) is it required to use 'linkpac -C copy' when doing linkpac?
I'm not positive
2) when I do linkpac, I end up with bogofilter.spec in the bogofilter-sqlite folder, so I wonder how should I create bogofilter-sqlite.spec, iow. is it actually just modified spec file incorporating required changes to build it?
Yes, the second one is just a copy of the first with modifications.
3) does bogofilter-sqlite folder contain both spec files?
Yes, both packages will contain both spec files. the package "bogofilter" will use spec file "bogofilter.spec" the package "bogofilter-sqlite" will use spec file "bogfilter-sqlite.spec" That will happen automatically if you have 2 projects and the spec files are named after the projects.
The bogofilter package will automatically ignore the bogofilter-sqlite.spec file and vice versa. (just be sure to name the spec files after the project names; obs knows what to do from that point.)
4) how should one do the build, by running 'osc build bogofilter.spec' ?
"osc build" is fine. osc knows what project you are trying to build and will select the matching spec file automatically.
The packages share the tarball, patches, and changes file so no extra maintenance is needed to maintain both. And it becomes obvious to people modifying one of the spec files they need to modify both.
It sounds good.
Otoh, I was looking for help in IRC today (#opensuse-buildservice) and I was suggested (darix provided example) to use update-alternatives mechanism in order so that different users can use different packages installed simultenaously and in that case binary would be bogofilter-sqlite instead of default bogofilter?
Please, advice!
Above my pay grade. I've never setup an update-alternatives situation.
Sincerely, Gour
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