Andreas Enge <andr...@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
