On 24 June 2016 at 19:06, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Guru Shetty wrote:
>> On 17 June 2016 at 12:42, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Commit 0dcc739e7a28 ("debian: Move ovs-lib to openvswitch-common.")
>> > shifted a file between debian packages, but didn't update the
>> > destination package annotations to indicate that it replaces a file
>> > from earlier versions of the source package.
>> >
>> > As a result, if one installs openvswitch-switch-2.5* and then tries to
>> > upgrade to openvswitch-{switch,common}-2.5.90+, the install of
>> > openvswitch-common will fail like the following:
>> >
>> > dpkg: error processing archive
>> > /tmp/openvswitch-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb (--install):
>> > trying to overwrite '/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib', which is
>> > also in package openvswitch-switch 2.5.0-1
>> >
>> > Fix the issue by adding "Replaces" and "Breaks" tags to the new
>> > openvswitch-common section of debian/control.
>> >
>> > Fixes: 0dcc739e7a28 ("debian: Move ovs-lib to openvswitch-common.")
>> > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
>> >
>>
>> One option is to move back ovs-lib to openvswitch-switch and make
>> ovn-common depend on openvswitch-switch too. ovn-common is used by
>> ovn-central and ovn-host and both of them have a dependency on
>> openvswitch-switch anyway, so it is probably not a bad thing.
>>
>> Ben do you have any opinions on what is the "debain way" here?
>
> I don't think there's anything wrong with that proposal but one wouldn't
> normally make packaging choices on the basis that someone might type
> dpkg commands in the wrong order.OK, it seems like the approach in this patch is fine so I will apply it soon. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
