Hi there. jxy is asking me on AUR if I can include the info file of the emacs-org-mode package. however, an old version of org-mode is now shipped with emacs, thus installing some info files within /usr/share/info. Is there a policy to address this problem ? Should I overwrite the info files from emacs (bad idea I guess) Should I rename the info file ? Should I just avoid installing the file, as I'm doing now ? Jiyunatori
2008/10/24 Jiyunatori <tori@0xc29.net>:
Hi there.
jxy is asking me on AUR if I can include the info file of the emacs-org-mode package.
however, an old version of org-mode is now shipped with emacs, thus installing some info files within /usr/share/info.
Is there a policy to address this problem ? Should I overwrite the info files from emacs (bad idea I guess) Should I rename the info file ? Should I just avoid installing the file, as I'm doing now ?
Jiyunatori
If I were you, I would look at the differences between files from original emacs and and files from your package. If there was significant diferency between them, it would be meaningful to provide info files with your package. Anyway if you really want to include files, it's much better to rename them. Any attempt to replace existing files will end with pacman yelling at you about conflicting files.
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:43:06 +0200 Subject: [aur-general] info files From: Jiyunatori <tori@0xc29.net> To: aur-general@archlinux.org
Hi there.
jxy is asking me on AUR if I can include the info file of the emacs-org-mode package.
however, an old version of org-mode is now shipped with emacs, thus installing some info files within /usr/share/info.
Is there a policy to address this problem ? Should I overwrite the info files from emacs (bad idea I guess) Should I rename the info file ? Should I just avoid installing the file, as I'm doing now ?
Jiyunatori
Hello, I have the same problem with my package imaxima in AUR, which is in an older version also included in maxima. I rename the info file and do a sed to reflect the renaming within the info file itself. You can have a look at he PKGBUILD and the install file and do it the same way. Regards Stefan
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