Hi, I'm trying to package some software where I combine various packages into a single location. I'll try to explain...
I have a package P. This package contains a binary, B, some libraries S, and some libraries R. These are usually packages together, in which case things just work, but I need to support adding various versions of some of these packages. E.g. I add P@2:out to get everything for that version, but additionally P@1:S and P@1:R. B can only be added once as it is at the same location, and we usually use the latest version, but S and R have versioned subdirectories. This means S@1 is located at /s/1 and R@2 is located at /r/2. Given the shell with P@2:out, P@1:S, P@1:R, I should get a structure like /B /s/1 /s/2 /r/1 /r/2 This is the structure you get when installing the packages on other distros and operating systems. But how can I create such a "virtual package"? I also need to register this virtual package path in an environment variable so B is able to locate all S and R versions, P_ROOT. Right now only :out works as I cannot get the locations of other P:S and P:R known to B. The single environment variable can only point at a single path, and that path must include the s and r directories with all installed versions. How can I solve this problem? Are there other packages which does something similar I might look at? Regards Simen
