On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:08:06AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > En réponse à Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Well, I just had a look to the diff.gz, and I think you did it > > > wrong. > > > The new versioned packages must not replace the current ones. > > > > Why not ? > > > > Or do you plan to have both ocaml 3.06-15 and ocaml-3.06 3.06-16 > > installed at the same time ? > > Yes it is necessary, and then you must add the dummy packages.
No, i don't plan to have both ocaml-3.06 and ocaml (<= 3.06-15) installed at the same time, this would be nightmarish. The plan is that everyone uses ocaml 3.06-15, until i upload ocaml 3.06-16, which will be a dummy package pulling in ocaml-3.06 3.06-16. This works fine, i did test it on two boxes, and it works transparently on upgrade. > > > You must provide one dummy package per versioned package. > > > In the versioned package, you need to rename binaries > > > like ocaml.ocaml-3.06-1, and the ocaml dummy package will > > > provide a "ocaml" link to it. > > > > Mmm, i did not say that these where the definite versions. I think > > some > > kind of renaming is needed, like you say, and i will have to rename > > all > > executables, and provide links to it. > > I think it is time to do it properly don't you think? Yes, sure, as time permits. I fixed the open bugs and the sparc FTBFS issue yesterday (late, you may have noticed), which i think where more important issues. That said, ocaml doesn't build yet on sparc, because it fails to build the ocaml-native-compilers .deb, which has me utterly baffled. > Let's the mini free going on and let's take more time to experiment > ideas. Would you like me to do some work on the ocaml packaging? Yes, but we have at least 2 weeks before us, there is no urgency. I think i prefer to do the work myself, just help me out on the thinking part. > > > You need do do such effort for every common file as well. > > > (This is how it work with Python and GCC). > > > > No, only for the executables, the rest is already handled by the > > changed > > libdir, or am i missing something ? > > I have in mind at least conffiles and manpages. Well, conffiles, there is only one such, /etc/ocaml/ld.conf, which is really just a symlink on the /usr/lib/ocaml/3.06/ld.conf, so we could use an alternative for this, or simply let it be set by the ocaml dummy package, no problem there. Manpages, i didn't think of it, mmm, i will give all files a look. It will be messy though. Friendly, Sven Luther
