[arch-general] makepkg/PKGBUILD - handle same files provided by 2 non-dependent packages?

[baho Utot]

On 03/25/2012 12:44 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>    I need to know if makepkg/PKGBUILD can handle a check to see whether the same
> files provided by two different packages (which are not dependencies of each
> other) exist in the file system to prevent an installation failure due to
> conflicting files?
>
>    The situation is this. Both tdesdk and tdesvn both provide:
>
> /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+file.protocol
> /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+http.protocol
> /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+https.protocol
> /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+ssh.protocol
> /opt/trinity/share/services/svn.protocol
>
>    Since neither package is a dependency for the other, tdesvn needs to provide
> the files if tdesdk isn't installed and tdesdk needs to provide the files if
> tdesvn isn't installed, but avoid the conflict if both are installed. Is this
> possible?
>
>    If they were dependencies of each other, then that would be an easy fix. If
> both were assured to be installed, that would also be an easy fix by rm'ing the
> files from one package or the other, but in the case when either or both can be
> installed -- How do you handle this?? Thanks for any ideas you have.
>

This is simple.

Split those files out of both packages and put them into a separate file.
Then make both packages depend on the new split-out package.