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#1 2011-10-13 08:16:03
- sebcactus
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How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
Hi there 
I made a PKGBUILD for sp-tk (speek toolkit).
It provides LOTS of binaries.
Of course the name of one of them is conflicting with a binary of another package (boost)
I thought of two options:
1. installing it in /opt instead of /usr (rather simple): but there may be conflicts with other packages (not that I am aware of)
2. putting the binaries in its own repository (e.g. /usr/share/sptk/bin or /opt/sptk/bin) and adding a profile.d/sptk.sh script to include the binary locations in the path.
What would be the best approach? (Any other good suggestion accepted)
Thanks,
Seb
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#2 2011-10-13 09:09:04
- ngoonee
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
/opt is best, and if you put everything under /opt/sp-tk there will be no conflict. I recall seeing when I first started packaging, though, that AUR packages should not put anything in /opt for FHS reasons (some of my own packages were threatened with deletion because of that).
Is this program open-source or binary-release?
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#3 2011-10-13 09:48:53
- sebcactus
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
Thank you!
It is open source, under some BSD license.
So if I put everything under /opt/sp-tk it will create the corresponding bin,lib,include dirs.
I have now other questions 
- It is not an every day software: those are speech processing tools, so I don't have to create a profile.d/sptk.sh to get access to the binaries, do I?
- Is the license still under /usr/share/licenses/sptk/ ?
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#4 2011-10-14 02:51:13
- Snowman
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
You could also just rename the binary that conflict.
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#5 2011-10-14 07:49:56
- sebcactus
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
Well it is not convenient. These are tools, which are usually used by other software/scripts. So changing the name of the binary would impact all the scripts based on it 
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#6 2011-10-14 09:34:41
- Snowman
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
Well it is not convenient. These are tools, which are usually used by other software/scripts. So changing the name of the binary would impact all the scripts based on it
In that case, you'll need profile.d/sptk.sh to update the PATH variable otherwise the software/scripts won't find the sptk tools unless they specify the correct full path.
And the license still goes in /usr/share/licenses/sptk/ (assuming sptk is the pkgname)
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#7 2011-10-17 09:25:25
- sebcactus
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Re: How to deal with conflicting packages which should not conflict?
Discussion following there:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1003397
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