Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: I am the (new) maintainer of bcm5700-source, a modules package for the broadcom gigabit adapter. The final package, bcm5700-module-${KVERS}, includes a manpage, /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700.4.gz. I just now ran into the problem that while installing the 2.4.22 image and

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.01.0853 +0200]: Abbreviated example: make-pkg --append-to-version -2-686-smp kernel_modules Produces: /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700-2-4-21-2-686-smp.4.gz Not by default. I could make that happen manually though, which is what I will

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.01.0853 +0200]: Abbreviated example: make-pkg --append-to-version -2-686-smp kernel_modules Produces: /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700-2-4-21-2-686-smp.4.gz Not by default. I could make that happen manually though,

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:18:26AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.08.31.0013 +0200]: If you want two different versions of documentation, they need to be named differently. Alternatively, you can just split the

overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
I am the (new) maintainer of bcm5700-source, a modules package for the broadcom gigabit adapter. The final package, bcm5700-module-${KVERS}, includes a manpage, /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700.4.gz. I just now ran into the problem that while installing the 2.4.22 image and modules, the

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:05:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I am the (new) maintainer of bcm5700-source, a modules package for the broadcom gigabit adapter. The final package, bcm5700-module-${KVERS}, includes a manpage, /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700.4.gz. I just now ran into the problem

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.08.31.0013 +0200]: If you want two different versions of documentation, they need to be named differently. Alternatively, you can just split the documentation into a separate package and allow only one version to be installed at once. I

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:18:26AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.08.31.0013 +0200]: If you want two different versions of documentation, they need to be named differently. Alternatively, you can just split the documentation into a

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.08.31.0130 +0200]: I don't think a single manpage warrants another binary package. So the only real solution is to put the manpage into /usr/share/doc/package/docs ... Or name it manpage-version.section. Which is what I will do,

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-08-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Which is what I will do, probably. It's just annoying... but a statement in README.Debian will do... update-alternatives is usually used in managing multiple manpages. I don't know if it's a overkill, but it's somewhat friendlier than documenting in README.Debian. regards,