Ditto apr1 and aprutil1 (was Two identically-named libtool directories)

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Sat Feb 7 21:09:00 GMT 2009


On 2/7/2009 11:22 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:58:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> We have two libtool directories with two setup.hints in
>> ~release/_obsolete and ~release.  This is causing problems.  It seems
>> like things have been like this since at least November and no one was
>> complaining because upset threw out the _obsolete package in favor of a
>> newer one thanks purely to the fragile sort order directory inspection.
>> That has changed now thanks to last week's problems.
>>
>> People are complaining about getting out-of-date versions of libtool.
>> Maybe I'll figure out the intent two seconds after sending this message
>> but I can't see any reason to have two packages with identical names in
>> the release so I have deleted the _obsolete/libtool packages.
>>
>> Looks like even error-checking for upset is in order.
> 
> Two more culprits.
> 
> I don't understand why these duplicate named directories and setup.hints
> were created.  Package names are supposed to be unique so it was
> basically luck (and an upset bug) that the _obsolete directories were
> quietly overridden before.
> 
> I've removed _obsolete/apr1 and _obsolete/aprutil1.

apr1 and aprutil1 packages are supposed to be in the _obsolete category. 
The other packages should be in libapr1 and libaprutil1.

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David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

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