Re: kernel-manual-X.Y.Z packages
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:48:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a problem with -doc packages as produced by
> kernel-package, in that two different versions can not be installed
> at the same time, since they contain secti0on 9 man pages, which thsu
> generate file conflicts.
>
> 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?
--
Horms
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