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

J. Félix Ontañón fontanon at emergya.es
Mon Feb 27 08:53:42 UTC 2012


El día 23 de febrero de 2012 00:40, Mark Wainwright
<mark.wainwright at okfn.org> escribió:
> 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

Maybe datapackagemanager is long for a command line tool name and dsm
would sound rare for people using dpm ... I wonder if recover the
former datapkg name would be a good idea. Anyway this is up to ckan
developers.

> 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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