[yocto] Cleanly moving files from one package to another

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 08:19:40PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm on poky/dizzy-1.7.3 and I'm using opkg for a package manager.  I have a few script files that are part of one package that really belong with another.  So I updated both recipes, removed the file from one recipe and added it to the other recipe.  I built everything, made the opkg feed repo and tried to upgrade with "opkg update; opkg upgrade" to see how clean the upgrade was.  For each script file I moved from one package to the other I get an error message of the form:
> 
> * check_data_file_clashes: Package A wants to install file /path/to/script/file
>         But that file is already provided by package  * B
> 
> I know I can do "opkg upgrade --force-overwrite", but I'd like to make recipe changes so that it upgrades cleanly.  All I've done in the recipes is remove the script files from the FILES variable and the do_install step of one recipe and added the script to the FILES variable and do_install step of the other recipe.  I know update-alternatives can be used if more than one package provides the same binary, but is that necessary in this case when transferring ownership to another package?  Is there anything else I can do in the recipes to prevent the opkg install errors?

Have you tried to set
RREPLACES_<pkg-new> = "<pkg-old>"
?

If the old package should be removed completely during opkg upgrade,
then you'll need to set whole combo, that is
RREPLACES,RCONFLICTS,RPROVIDES.

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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