Re: pkg like shlibs

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

skaller wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 10:13 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
>> We already moved some this way with ocaml, who installs in
>> /usr/lib/ocaml/<version>, but didn't go the full way. 
> 
> Ok, can I do this too? I would install in:
> 
> /usr/lib/felix/felix-1.1.2

Why not /usr/lib/felix/1.1.2? (just a matter of taste)

>> There are two issues
>> remaining :
>>
>>   1) binaries are not versioned. Upstream support for this is a bit fishy, and
>>   it would have represented lot of work.
>>
>>   2) we decided to keep only a single ocaml non versioned package, in order to
>>   avoid issues with NEW and lag due to the ftp-masters overload.
> 
> I understand. What happens, if I upgrade my Ocaml? Does the old
> directory get deleted due to a conflict removing the old
> Ocaml package first?

When you upgrade ocaml, the old package is removed, thus the old
directory is removed if empty and the new package is installed, creating
the new dir.

Cheers,

Samuel.