Re: about build flavours
Hello,
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Currently, our main idea is to create a suricata-hyperscan package
> which includes the dependency to hyperscan, and the binary is build
> linked to the library.
>
> We distribute two /usr/bin/suricata binaries in two binary packages:
> * suricata, without hyperscan
> * suricata-hyperscan, with hyperscan
>
> Then, we conflict the packages with each other and dpkg-divert the
> /usr/bin/suricata file in suricata-hyperscan.
If both packages conflict with each other, then you don't need
dpkg-divert. And dpkg-divert is mainly useful when you want to replace a
file that is not under your own control, otherwise using the alternatives
system is usually preferred.
Cheers,
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