On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:46:12PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >On Fri, Apr 04, 2003, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote: > >> >Why do they conflict? Sure, both provide DNS, but a Conflicts: header >> >should be IMHO only applied if _FILES_ of two packages conflict. Not if >> >the purpose of the package conflicts. Same for teapop IMHO! >> > >> Like I said, I'm happy to change the policy if you want to redefine the >> purpose of our 'Provides' and 'Conflicts' fields. So I assume your vote is to >> ignore the 'Provides' field, and mark conflicts only to packages with >> conflicting files. That would be two and a half votes then. > >IMHO "Provides" is a high-level/purpose/feature-set thing meaning >another package can _USE_ any package which provides the feature. >"Conflicts" is a low-level/files-related thing meaning only one package >at a time can be _INSTALLED_ within a single OpenPKG instance. Hence I >vote for backing out the bind, teapop, etc. patches from today.
There's a conflict if two packages would normally try to bind to the same port(s) (e.g. as in postfix/sendmail,ssmtp,exim). SuSE 8.1 uses some generic Provides (e.g. smtp_daemon) which address services provided rather than files. I've modified the openpkg SRPMS for postfix that we use here to build a spec file for /bin/rpm on SuSE 8.1 that Provide(s) smtp_daemon, Obsoletes postfix, and makes symlinks for /etc/postfix, /usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail into the openpkg instance. This /bin/rpm specfile is then built and installed in %post processing in the openpkg specfile. This prevents SuSE from reinstalling postfix automatically when doing /bin/rpm updates because other /bin/rpm packages require the ``smtp_daemon''. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago.'' Will Rogers ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
