From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
To: andreas@enge.fr, Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Different versions of a package in the same profile?
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 19:52:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKrPhPNsAKhtiK29pb4T02_2mssrULTc6u27qKRddTUr5hsgsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 06:22:28PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> There is also the question of conflicts with identical file names. They are
> already there now, but their probability should be higher with identical
> package names. Maybe we need to rethink the handling of conflicts also.
In the past I did use the packaging system called SEPP
http://oss.oetiker.ch/op-sepp/
It allow installing several versions of a program on a single system.
The way they use to avoid naming conflicts it to systematically add a
suffix to binary names, with the suffix corresponding to the version of
the package. They even went one step further and they added a suffix
with the initials of the administrator who packaged the application.
Each program was available with several names. For program foo:
- foo
- foo-1.2.3
- foo-1.2.3-fb
Obviously if more foo versions were installed, only one would be
referred to by foo. The others were available with versioned names.
As a user, the system did work very well.
To handle updating, specifying foo should update the version owning
the name foo. To update another version one would give the versioned
name "foo-1.2.3".
Regards,
Fede
next reply other threads:[~2014-11-02 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-02 18:52 Federico Beffa [this message]
2014-11-03 8:58 ` Different versions of a package in the same profile? Ludovic Courtès
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2014-10-27 12:24 Problems with downloading from https Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-27 13:27 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-27 14:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-10-27 16:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-27 16:44 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-28 8:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 22:22 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 7:27 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 7:49 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 12:31 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 12:38 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 23:07 ` Different versions of a package in the same profile? Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 10:46 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-02 17:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-02 17:39 ` Andreas Enge
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