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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:22:34PM -0400, -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- wrote:
> I would also add that durring my testing of xdirectfb I found I also had
> to use:
> sed -i 's/:xfree86(X11-LIBS):/:xdirectfb:/' /var/state/sorcery/depends
> sed -i 's/:xfree86(X11-SERVER):/:xdirectfb:/' /var/state/sorcery/depends
> 
> I don't know if other spells with multipule providers have instances
> like this but seems like a function in sorcery to quickly convert the
> depends table to a new PROVIDER would be nice.

This is handled automatically in the latest devel sorcery, switching
providers is as easy as casting the new provider, sorcery will
automatically switch dependencies to it for other spells when those are
recast.

> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 05:10, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i just submitted a xorg spell for the X.org X server[1], a full 
> > replacement
> > for XFree86. It works fine here (with some quirks in gnome 2.6 related
> > to keyboard which seems to be a gnome bug), so everyone is encouraged to
> > test it. The spell is in devel and test for now.
> > 
> > I noticed one sorcery problem after switching: changing the provider for
> > a service like X11-LIBS doesn't work too well, all spells still wanted
> > to install xfree86 when run with a cast -c.
> > I fixed it for me with a
> > $ sed -i 's/:xfree86:xorg:/'  /var/state/sorcery/depends
> > But there should definitely be a way in sorcery to do this, either with
> > a seperate command or automatically when sorcery detects you installed a
> > new provider (don't know how hard that would be).
> > 
> > [1] http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/
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