Re: ITP: xracer
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:00:36PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote:
> > > Is there any chance of getting glx in potato?
> >
> > Yes, I was hoping to get it into potato soon, the problem is that I'm not
> > sure how to do all the depends/replaces/conflicts/alternatives/diversions
> > whatever, libgl1 does not totally replace mesag3. mesag3 also contains
> > libMesaGLU, but libgl1 can be easily modified to build libGLU so that
> > probably won't be a problem.
> >
> > What would be the proper way to make libgl replace the mesa libs?
>
> Declare a Depends: (maybe) and definitely a Replaces: for mesag3.
> dpkg will allow you then to overwite libMesaGLU with no troubles.
That's not the problem, changing the libMesaGL.so.3 symlink to point to
libGL.so.1 is.
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Stephen Crowley
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