Bug 830866
| Summary: | use update-alternatives --slave | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau> |
| Component: | vala | Assignee: | Michel Lind <michel> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | michel, zeenix |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 05:04:16 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: The vala package currently install 8 alternatives: /etc/alternatives/vala /etc/alternatives/valac /etc/alternatives/valac.1.gz /etc/alternatives/vala-gen-introspect /etc/alternatives/vala-gen-introspect.1.gz /etc/alternatives/vapicheck /etc/alternatives/vapigen /etc/alternatives/vapigen.1.gz However, I don't think it makes sense to have some of them point to vala 0.14 and others point to 0.16. Changing one should change all the others. update-alternatives has a master/slave feature to handle this: « It is often useful for a number of alternatives to be synchronised, so that they are changed as a group; for example, when several ver‐ sions of the vi(1) editor are installed, the man page referenced by /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1 should correspond to the executable refer‐ enced by /usr/bin/vi. alternatives handles this by means of master and slave links; when the master is changed, any associated slaves are changed too. A master link and its associated slaves make up a link group. » I think the way to achieve this is something like update-alternatives /usr/bin/vala vala /usr/bin/vala-0.16 90 --slave /usr/bin/valac valac /usr/bin/valac-0.16 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/vala.1.gz vala.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vala-0.16.1.gz --slave ...