Re: [PATCH] xserver-xorg: remove broken RREPLACES

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 9/14/12 5:37 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 17:28 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> Based on that, I'm not sure what RREPLACES is being used for:
>>
>> FILES_${PN} = "${bindir} ${libdir}/X11/Options ${libdir}/X11/Cards
>> ${libdir}/X11/getconfig ${libdir}/X11/etc ${libdir}/modules/*.so
>> ${libdir}/xorg/modules/*.so /etc/X11 ${libdir}/xorg/protocol.txt
>> ${datadir}/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>>
>> Since under the packaging rules, that one file will only exist in the one
>> package, and it won't ever exist in both packages.
>>
>> So Replaces is wrong under either definition from what I can tell.
>
> The point is that it was in older versions of xserver-xorg.  It's indeed
> not in the current version, and in fact it can't be since (due to the
> way that FILES works) there is no way for a single file to end up in
> more than one of the PACKAGES for a given recipe.

Ahh, thats easy.. It conflicts or replaces an older version..

RCONFLICTS_... = ${PN} (<${PV})

or something like that.  Once updated to the current version of ${PN} no conflict.

> In the particular case at hand I think the problem is relatively minor,
> since folks who have an old xserver-xorg installed can upgrade by first
> installing the new xserver-xorg (which doesn't ship libexa.so) and then
> installing xserver-xorg-module-exa.  But, if the new xserver-xorg had
> depended on xserver-xorg-module-exa then this wouldn't have worked
> without the RREPLACES.
>
> p.
>
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