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

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>]

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..

BR;

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
guille.rodriguez@gmail.com

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