Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> 
> >> With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately.
> >> With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die
> >> when it reaches your package.
> 
> > With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the
> > package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged.
> 
> So nothing depends on it that would pull in the new package? Now I see
> what your problem is. ;-)
> 
> Isn't it possible to package.move -server or -client to the new
> package?

Assuming you're talking about "global updates" commands: Don't use it
for this kind of use case. The "move" command just renames a package in
vdb, and using it for anything that goes beyond a simple relocation in
the tree _will_ result in problems later on (we've been there already).

Marius
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