[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev48286 - build/jam/repositories/HaikuPorts

  • From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:55:07 +0100

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:32:29PM +0100, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Am 12/11/2014 22:22, schrieb François Revol:
> >I'd rather have the older version with a patched name, so the generic
> >one can be updated... ie libpng15 and libpng for 1.6...
> 
> Why do we need to take special care in the first place? The packages will
> have different names, and their shared object names usually have the version
> in there, too. Only the libpng.so link in _devel should be a problem.
> Am I missing something here?

If both packages provide "libpng" (the package name), it's not possible
to install them side by side. libsolv will want to uninstall the older
one.

-- 
Adrien.

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