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 -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany