Btw alternatives should be now working on ostree systems https://github.com/fedora-sysv/chkconfig/commit/4224f51d0212318dd0fada3976e205e8189cf4b4
út 15. 7. 2025 v 10:07 odesílatel Vít Ondruch <[email protected]> napsal: > > Dne 14. 07. 25 v 16:27 Jan Stanek napsal(a): > > Hello everyone! > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > > <[email protected]> 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. > > Perhaps somebody would not mind to update this guidelines section > reflecting this information? > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Alternatives/ > > In my reading, this section (kind of) promotes the alternatives, while > this feedback suggest quite strongly against. > > > Vít > > > >> 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! > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > 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/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
-- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
