Re: [Xenomai] Packaging Xenomai-3

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 06:46:21PM +0100, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> El Dilluns, 26 de gener de 2015, a les 15:59:43, Gilles Chanteperdrix va 
> escriure:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:56:08PM +0100, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> > > El Dilluns, 26 de gener de 2015, a les 15:08:26, Gilles Chanteperdrix va
> > > escriure:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > Sure, but in that case you would have two xenomai build trees, that
> > > > you can configure with different options so that they do not collide
> > > > once installed.
> > > 
> > > I'm sure that you can install it where do you want. But are you sure that
> > > you can install a library in a path outside the standard place, without
> > > touching ld.so.conf and you can have a program running from an
> > > installation?
> > In Debian wheezy (and I assume any later revision), there is an
> > /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory where each package can install its
> > file with the directories it wants to add to the search path.
> 
> That's the point Gilles. Debian doesn't accept that [1]. 

No, you missed the point. Entirely. The point is distribution rules
apply to re-packaging made for distributions. Not to upstream
packages. So, basically, Xenomai upstream package does not care
about any distribution rules, and the job of the Debian maintainer
is to massage Xenomai installation so that it fits Debian rules.

Look for instance at how the libcurl3 packages are made. libcurl3 can
use openssl, gnutls or nss as providing TLS, but was not meant to
run the three at a time. Debian wants to be able to install the
three version, so what does the Debian rules does ? They manage to do
it.

Putting things into several directories was just one proposed
solution, but it is not by any mean the only one.

-- 
					    Gilles.
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