[Fedora-packaging] Re: packaging an alternate dictionary for cracklibs?

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:27 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:11:50PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > Each subpackage can have virtual Provides+Conflicts to indicate one
>  > *must* be installed:
>  >
>  > Provides: cracklib-dictionaries
>  > Conflicts: cracklib-dictionaries
>  >
>  > Then cracklib itself can do the following:
>  >
>  > Requires: cracklib-dictionaries
>  > Suggests: cracklib-dicts-10k-worst
>  >
>  > And cracklib-dicts-full (replacing old cracklib-dicts) would do the following:
>  >
>  > Obsoletes: cracklib-dicts < %{version}-%{release}
>  > Provides: cracklib-dictionaries
>  > Conflicts: cracklib-dictionaries
>
>  Is there a way for subpackages to actually contain different files with the
>  same path/name?
>  
Yes. You can declare each (sub)package to do something like so:

%package -n cracklib-dicts-full
RemovePathPostfixes: .dicts-full

...

%install
install -pm 0644 sourcefile
%{buildroot}/path/to/location/cracklib-dicts.dict.dicts-full

...

%files -n cracklib-dicts-full
/path/to/location/cracklib-dicts.dict.dicts-full

The end result will have cracklib-dicts-full containing
/path/to/location/cracklib-dicts.dict


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