PLD-doc: devel-hints-en.txt - add package splits section

[glen]

Author: glen                         Date: Fri Sep 29 22:37:21 2006 GMT
Module: PLD-doc                       Tag: HEAD
---- Log message:
- add package splits section

---- Files affected:
PLD-doc:
   devel-hints-en.txt (1.25 -> 1.26) 

---- Diffs:

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Index: PLD-doc/devel-hints-en.txt
diff -u PLD-doc/devel-hints-en.txt:1.25 PLD-doc/devel-hints-en.txt:1.26
--- PLD-doc/devel-hints-en.txt:1.25	Sat Sep 30 00:22:45 2006
+++ PLD-doc/devel-hints-en.txt	Sat Sep 30 00:37:16 2006
@@ -462,6 +462,21 @@
 protocol.
 
 
+Package splits.
+
+When you decide to split a package, you should add Conflicts: on new package
+before the split. This is to prevent two packages providing same files being
+installed at same time. As the two packages don't have any relations between
+each other, rpm will allow you to have installed pam-libs-0.80.1-2 and
+pam-0.80.1-1 at the same time.
+
+So if you split package 'pam' to 'pam' and 'pam-libs' at version 0:0.80.1-2:
+
+%package libs
+Summary: PAM modules and libraries
+Group:           Libraries
+Conflicts:       pam < 0:0.80.1-2
+
 CVS branches.
 
 A package is often developed in various branches (e.g. because there's
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