[ckan-dev] python-ckanclient on Debian Sid (unstable) and dpm packaging issues

Wed Feb 22 23:40:36 UTC 2012

Am I right that 'data package' is the name previously given to what
are now 'datasets'? If so would 'dsm' for dataset manager do the
trick?

Mark

2012/2/21 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
> On 20 February 2012 00:03, J. Félix Ontañón <fontanon at emergya.es> wrote:
>> El día 14 de febrero de 2012 16:52, J. Félix Ontañón
>> <fontanon at emergya.es> escribió:
>>>
>>>>> Nowadays I'm working on dpm packaging[4] but got some issues:
>>>>> * dpm package name is already used by Disk Pool Manager[5], part of
>>>>> the gLite middleware suite.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I'd noticed that. What do you suggest? Is there an actual
>>>> conflict in script name or just in package name. If the latter we
>>>> could tweak the package name. If the former we have a trickier time.
>>>
>>> The point is that this two packages ..
>>> * dpm-mysql
>>> * dpm-postgresql
>>> ... installs an exec on /usr/bin/dpm via update-alternatives method
>>>
>>> This means a conflict with the script name. A third solution would be
>>> to tweak the script name at debian source package, maintaining dpm
>>> name for the script at upstream. Anyway, i'll ask some debian
>>> developers for solutions with similar scenarios.
>>
>> I've been asking some debian develpers. I'm afraid the suggested
>> solution is to rename the dpm script at debian package building.
>> This way dpm script at upstream remains the original name, and debian
>> package name could be named dpm too.
>
> I think that's fine. We can try and think of something. As a stop gap
> let's just use the verbose datapackagemanager ....
>
> Rufus
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