On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Cor Blom <corne...@solcon.nl> wrote: > Op maandag 4 juli 2011 10:54:13 schreef Rainer M Krug: > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Cor Blom <corne...@solcon.nl> wrote: > > > > > I have setup a project called "lyx-unstable" in my home project, with > two > > > packages: lyx (this is a regular build from branch-2.0.x) and > > > lyx-unstable (from trunk). The first is build without suffix and will > > > replace the normal lyx installation (but the user will have to force > > > this), > > > > I do not think that's a good idea - LyX installed by the system should > > always be the last *released version*, and not BRANCH_2_0_X. > > Normal users should not use this repository, but stay with the package in > Publising. This build from BRANCH_2_0_X is intended for testing, and the > user > can stay with it if he wants to live on edge, or he can easily revert to > the > released version in Publishung and ignore this repo (even if he has added > it). > I do not intend to add unreleased packages to the Publishing repo. > > > > > > the second is build > > > with suffix "-unstable" and can be installed next to a normal and > stable > > > lyx. > > > > > > > > > > > > I do not think it usefull to give everything a different suffix (and it > > > is pretty hard work to make everything installable next to each other > on > > > an rpm > > > system), but I do think it usefull to be able to install trunk next to > a > > > stable version of lyx. > > > > That is something which should be discussed, but the reasoning was that > in > > the past, there were discussions about different file versions and users > > having to compile from source with version suffix to have 1.6 and 2.0 > > available simultaneously. > > But if it is difficult on an rpm system, we could leave it for the moment > > as it is? > > You cannot install (normally) two packages with the same name, so if I want > to > install different packages next to one another, I have to give them > different > names. It is possible though and not that much work, but the names of the > packages won't be pretty. If there is demand for it, I can do it. >
I would suggest we just leave it for the moment, and as soon as the ppa is up and running, we could see to make these two build services using comparable naming rules and version suffixes. Cheers, Rainer > > Cor > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
