Re: kernel-manual-X.Y.Z packages

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:48:47PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:45:36 +0900, Horms  <horms@debian.org> said: 
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:48:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> >> Since it may be desirable to have the doc packages installed at the
> >> same time, I am considering splitting off the man pages into
> >> kernel-manual-X.Y.Z (or linux-manual-X.Y.Z), which shall conflict
> >> with and provide kernel-manual (or linux-manual) virtual
> >> package. So, one may have multiple versions of kernel-doc installed
> >> simultaneously, but only one of kernel-manuals packages installed.
> 
> > That sounds fair enough, though could this also be solved with
> > alternates?
> 
>         Well. There are an unknown number of section 9 man pages, so
>  the alternatives directives would have to be generated in the
>  postinst based on the man pages shipped. So, either we create per
>  version man page directory somewhere, or we generate a per version
>  prefix for each man page, and run through them to generate the
>  altrernatives and remove alternatives on the fly on install and
>  remove.
> 
>         This is doable, but enough of an hassle that I would rather
>  not do it unless there is an actual need for it -- do the man pages
>  change that dramatically?

Thanks, for the explanation. I would suspect that the
manpages change at about the same speed as continental
drift, and as such your solution sounds entirely reasonable.

-- 
Horms