[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Chris Hubick]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:50 -0400, Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:52, Gary Benson wrote:
> > There are several reasons not to do this but the showstopper is that
> > if someone does 'yum install jonas-examples' on an empty system they
> > will not get the native code.
> 
> You may extend the RPM spec file with an optional header like the
> following:
> 
> 
>     Name: jonas-examples
> 
>     ... yadda yadda yadda ...
> 
>     CanBeMassivelySpedUpBy: jonas-examples-compiled-by-gcj
> 
> With this in place, yum can now fetch jonas-examples-compiled-by-gcj
> if is available.

Or maybe some way to have one package state that it "masks" another
package?

Name: jonas-examples-compiled-by-gcj

# Anyone tries to install 'jonas-examples', they get this
# package instead.
Masks: jonas-examples 

# we need the real jonas-examples, because we are *adding*
# to it (binaries), without this line, this package would
# just *replace* the masked one.
Requires: jonas-examples

%install
install our additional binary stuff here

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Chris Hubick
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