Re: [ptxdist] How to override files from another package

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:23:23PM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> El mié., 27 nov. 2019 a las 10:38, Michael Olbrich
> (<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>) escribió:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > > El mié., 27 nov. 2019 a las 10:06, Michael Olbrich
> > > (<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>) escribió:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 07:21:32PM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > > > > Is there a way for a ptxdist package to override files from another package?
> > > > > For example something similar to this:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/openembedded/2016-June/000031.html
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to create a package which depends on MESALIB (so that
> > > > > mesalib's targetinstall rule runs first), and then simply overwrite
> > > > > the files, but this fails when the package is generated, because there
> > > > > are multiple packages trying to provide the same files.
> > > >
> > > > It's not possible. What exactly are you trying to achieve? Which files do
> > > > you want to overwrite?
> > >
> > > As in the post from the ML above -- I am trying to overwrite the
> > > generic GL libraries provided by Mesa and replace them with
> > > vendor-provided binaries.
> >
> > Then you should not install mesa at all.
> 
> Not all libraries are replaced.
> 
> Also mesa is selected by other packages (such as weston), so if I
> wanted to skip mesa I would need to patch those as well..

Which libraries do you want replace? I assume libgbm from Mesa remains but
libGL* are replaced? And weston still works that way?

Michael


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