Hello everyone! On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 10/07/2025 13:14, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: > > We aim to move away from manual management of > > <code>/usr/bin/node</code>, <code>/usr/bin/npm</code>, and similar > > symlinks to leveraging update-alternatives system. > > AFAIK, the alternatives system doesn't work reliably on immutable > (ostree) Fedora versions.
Thanks for raising this issue; we of course forgot about rpm-ostree and what complications it could bring. This is a compelling argument to reconsider. > If you need to provide multiple /usr/bin/node symlinks, consider > generating swappable packages: nodeAB-bin, nodeXY-bin, etc. Then users > will be able to use dnf swap feature: > > sudo dnf swap nodeAB-bin nodeXY-bin --allowerasing And thanks for this idea as well – this would not occur to me instinctively, since I would assume that installing one stream (including the -bin package) would prevent installation of any other streams (as it would conflict with the other -bin package). Then I read up some more on weak dependencies and as it turns out, dnf is smart enough to remove any Recommended package from the transaction if it would cause a conflict. With this information, the swappable package approach seems doable. I'll update the wiki page with the feedback and we'll start experimenting with it. Best regards! -- Jan Stanek Software Engineer Red Hat IM: @jstanek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
