Re: Re: ipkg + Provides

From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks_at_hp.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:01:22 -0400

Pierluigi Frullani wrote:

>Jamey,
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>>I believe that this does work with ipkg. It can choose between multiple
>>packages providing 'bar' if they are for different architectures -- it
>>will choose highest priority architecture in that case. Otherwise, you
>>need to install one of the providers by name. The case that might is if
>>there is a package named 'foo' and a package named 'bar' that both
>>provide 'bar'. If this does not work, it is a regression.
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>I must say that I have never seen such behavior since I started maintaing, but
>obviuosly I will look into code for that.
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>Maybe the problem I'm referring shows when installing from a file ( e.g. ipkg
>install ./mypackage.ipk ).
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Yes, if you tell it to install a file, it will install that file and not
some other package that Provides the same package name.
Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 09:07:41 EDT

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