Building conflicting sub-packages

[Gnurou]

Hello everybody,

This may be more a RPM-related question, but I don't know of any valid place where to ask this...

I'm trying to build a set of RPM packages from a single source tree (and therefore a single spec file), for a dictionary application. The main RPM would contain the binary, and the subpackages the dictionaries generated for different languages. In order to use the application, the user must install the binary + one of the dictionary packages corresponding to his preferred language.

The problem is that these dictionary subpackages all refer to a file which name is the same, but which content is different. After hours of searching, I have not found any way to allow this. The desired effect can be obtained with dpkg since it is possible to specify a given file and give it a different name, but I have not figured out how to do the same with RPM. To be more explicit, say I have 3 different dictionary files:

dict-en.db
dict-fr.db
dict-de.db

and what I need to obtain, is 3 different sub-packages (dict-en.rpm, dict-fr.rpm and dict-de.rpm) where the corresponding dictionary file gets installed into /usr/share/myapp/dict.db. Of course, the three packages would be conflicting since they refer to the same file in the filesystem.

Is there an easy way to obtain that? If so, could someone give me a hint or two about how to do it?

Thanks,
Alex.

[etamPL]

My idea:
The package dict-en contains a file /usr/share/myapp/dict-en.db and a postinstall script

%post
ln -sf dict-en.db /usr/share/myapp/dict.db

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by etamPL

My idea:
The package dict-en contains a file /usr/share/myapp/dict-en.db and a
postinstall script

Code:
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%post
ln -sf dict-en.db /usr/share/myapp/dict.db
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Hi
You can do that during the install with pushd/popd;

pushd %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/myapp
%{__ln_s} dict-en.db dict.db
popd

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[Gnurou]

Of course! Why didn't I think of that... Many thanks for the tip guys.