Re: [PATCH] gconf: fix multilib conflict - org.gnome.GConf.service

[Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>]

On 07/07/2014 06:38 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 7 July 2014 11:07, Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com> wrote:
>> I got your point, but my patch was not tring to address the conflict of
>> binaries or libraries, that kind of conflicts would not cause build error,
>> as you pointed out, only ever a single instance be installed at one time.
>> It's actually tring to fix a conflict of conf file, if the gconfd-2 is put
>> into libexec directory, we have to keep a path like
>> /usr/lib64/gconf/gconfd-2(or /usr/lib/gconf/gconfd-2 in lib32 case)
>> referring it in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.GConf.service which
>> will cause the conflict.
> So why did the commit message talk about
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/GConf.service conflicting between
> installation, and how will your patch fix that error?  As far as I can
> tell ${datadir} isn't in the MULTILIBRE_ALLOW_REP so they'll still
> conflict, right?
>
> I still think that splitting up the gconf package into library and
> tooling is the logical solution.
I made this patch against to a old version of oe, I don't know much 
about the MULTILIBRE_ALLOW_REP thing, maybe you are right, I will try to 
figure out a new patch.

the best,
thank you
>
> Ross
>
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