Triple VNC

[Scot Hetzel]

> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 17:04, Bruno Czekay wrote:
> The first problem I see is you install the tightvnc package and it
> creates bin/vncviewer which is a symlink to bin/vncviewer-tight and then
> you install realvnc.  I believe that if you overwrite the existing
> symlink you will overwrite the symlink target.  So by installing
> realvnc's bin/vncviewer you will overwrite tightvnc's
> bin/vncviewer-tight.  I haven't tried this with any ports, simply
> copying files around and copying to the symlink overwrote the target
> file.
>
Several ports are already doing this (or have done this in the past). 
What they did is to change the src Makefile to install the file first
as bin/vncviewer-tight, then create a symlink to bin/vncviewer, in the
pkg-install script.

[ ! -f ${PKG_PREFIX}/bin/vncviewer ] && ln -s
${PKG_PREFIX}/bin/vncviewer-tight ${PKG_PREFIX}/bin/vncviewer

> The second problem I see is which package owns bin/vncviewer?  Both

The first one installed owns the bin/vncviewer link.

NOTE: the pkg-deinstall script would have to check where the link
points, to determine if it should remove the link.  Also if one of the
other ports are installed, it should create a link from the remaining
port to bin/vncviewer.

Scot