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Hey folks,

in Alpine based postmarketOS we have hit the following use case quite a
few times by now, and we're wondering how to solve it properly:
Packaging "testlib-b" as a _optional_ replacement for "testlib-a".

Both "testlib-a" and "testlib-b" provide the same soname, which means
abuild will automatically make both binary packages provide
"so:libtestlib.so.1".

Now there is a "testapp" package, which has "testlib-a" in makedepends
and links against "libtestlib.so.1". Therefore abuild puts
"so:libtestlib.so.1" in the depends of "testapp". What we would like to
achieve is, that whenever installing "testapp", it pulls in "testlib-a".
But when "testlib-b" is already installed, it uses "testlib-b" instead
of "testlib-a".

I have tried various combinations with "provides" and
"provider_priority", and I couldn't get it working. The only way it
would work was if "testapp" explicitly depended on "testlib-a", but that
won't fulfill our use case: if the library in question is "libdrm", then
we would need to change a lot of Alpine's aports to explicitly depend on
libdrm instead of implicitly to make it work.

If someone is interested, I can provide apk's output of what I've tried
so far. The aports I have used for testing are here [1].

To make this less abstract, one example where we would actually use
this, is "libdrm-grate", which adds out of tree tegra drivers to
"libdrm" [2].

Here are my questions:
* Am I missing something, or does this not work with apk?
* Would Alpine be interested in a patch that adds this functionality,
  and if so, how would everyone like to have it integrated?

Thanks for reading,
Oliver

[1]: https://github.com/ollieparanoid/apk-conflicts-example
[2]:
https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/1380#issuecomment-385183609



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Hello,

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Oliver Smith
<ollieparanoid@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> in Alpine based postmarketOS we have hit the following use case quite a
> few times by now, and we're wondering how to solve it properly:
> Packaging "testlib-b" as a _optional_ replacement for "testlib-a".
>
> Both "testlib-a" and "testlib-b" provide the same soname, which means
> abuild will automatically make both binary packages provide
> "so:libtestlib.so.1".

By default this means that both packages will provide
so:libtestlib.so.1 with provider_priority 0.  When provider_priority
is 0, it means to skip automatically resolving the provider.  Provider
selection is based on a combination of priority and overall "cost" of
choosing that provider.  apk will prefer the highest priority provider
with the lowest cost (dependency chain length) that can yield a
satiable solution.

> Now there is a "testapp" package, which has "testlib-a" in makedepends
> and links against "libtestlib.so.1". Therefore abuild puts
> "so:libtestlib.so.1" in the depends of "testapp". What we would like to
> achieve is, that whenever installing "testapp", it pulls in "testlib-a".
> But when "testlib-b" is already installed, it uses "testlib-b" instead
> of "testlib-a".

testlib-b (libdrm) should have provider_priority 1, testlib-a
(libdrm-grate) should have provider_priority greater than 1.  The
provides field itself should be left alone.  The key is to set a
priority on both providers, otherwise APK will treat it as a collision
and behave as you describe.

> I have tried various combinations with "provides" and
> "provider_priority", and I couldn't get it working. The only way it
> would work was if "testapp" explicitly depended on "testlib-a", but that
> won't fulfill our use case: if the library in question is "libdrm", then
> we would need to change a lot of Alpine's aports to explicitly depend on
> libdrm instead of implicitly to make it work.
>
> If someone is interested, I can provide apk's output of what I've tried
> so far. The aports I have used for testing are here [1].
>
> To make this less abstract, one example where we would actually use
> this, is "libdrm-grate", which adds out of tree tegra drivers to
> "libdrm" [2].
>
> Here are my questions:
> * Am I missing something, or does this not work with apk?
> * Would Alpine be interested in a patch that adds this functionality,
>   and if so, how would everyone like to have it integrated?
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Oliver
>
> [1]: https://github.com/ollieparanoid/apk-conflicts-example
> [2]:
> https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/1380#issuecomment-385183609

William


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Hello,

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:08 PM, William Pitcock
<nenolod@dereferenced.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Oliver Smith
> <ollieparanoid@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> in Alpine based postmarketOS we have hit the following use case quite a
>> few times by now, and we're wondering how to solve it properly:
>> Packaging "testlib-b" as a _optional_ replacement for "testlib-a".
>>
>> Both "testlib-a" and "testlib-b" provide the same soname, which means
>> abuild will automatically make both binary packages provide
>> "so:libtestlib.so.1".
>
> By default this means that both packages will provide
> so:libtestlib.so.1 with provider_priority 0.  When provider_priority
> is 0, it means to skip automatically resolving the provider.  Provider
> selection is based on a combination of priority and overall "cost" of
> choosing that provider.  apk will prefer the highest priority provider
> with the lowest cost (dependency chain length) that can yield a
> satiable solution.
>
>> Now there is a "testapp" package, which has "testlib-a" in makedepends
>> and links against "libtestlib.so.1". Therefore abuild puts
>> "so:libtestlib.so.1" in the depends of "testapp". What we would like to
>> achieve is, that whenever installing "testapp", it pulls in "testlib-a".
>> But when "testlib-b" is already installed, it uses "testlib-b" instead
>> of "testlib-a".
>
> testlib-b (libdrm) should have provider_priority 1, testlib-a
> (libdrm-grate) should have provider_priority greater than 1.  The
> provides field itself should be left alone.  The key is to set a
> priority on both providers, otherwise APK will treat it as a collision
> and behave as you describe.

For what it's worth, I am open to adding provider_priority=1 to
libdrm.  But it's not my package, so I prefer to hear from ncopa who
maintains it first.  Otherwise, you will need to rebuild the package.

William


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Hello,

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Oliver Smith
<ollieparanoid@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick and detailed reply! With the solution you have
> described, one can reliably make one package always get installed
> instead of the other one. I have tried it and it works.
>
> But our use case is slightly different: not all devices need
> libdrm-tegra, so we would like all non-tegra devices to depend on the
> regular libdrm package. (If we add a higher provider_priority to
> libdrm-tegra, then *all* devices will use libdrm-tegra.)

Set the higher priority on libdrm instead.  It is just the inverse use
case, so use the same technique but backwards.

William


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Thanks for the quick and detailed reply! With the solution you have
described, one can reliably make one package always get installed
instead of the other one. I have tried it and it works.

But our use case is slightly different: not all devices need
libdrm-tegra, so we would like all non-tegra devices to depend on the
regular libdrm package. (If we add a higher provider_priority to
libdrm-tegra, then *all* devices will use libdrm-tegra.)

Can this be done with apk as well?

Thanks,
Oliver

William Pitcock:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:08 PM, William Pitcock
> <nenolod@dereferenced.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Oliver Smith
>> <ollieparanoid@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> in Alpine based postmarketOS we have hit the following use case quite a
>>> few times by now, and we're wondering how to solve it properly:
>>> Packaging "testlib-b" as a _optional_ replacement for "testlib-a".
>>>
>>> Both "testlib-a" and "testlib-b" provide the same soname, which means
>>> abuild will automatically make both binary packages provide
>>> "so:libtestlib.so.1".
>>
>> By default this means that both packages will provide
>> so:libtestlib.so.1 with provider_priority 0.  When provider_priority
>> is 0, it means to skip automatically resolving the provider.  Provider
>> selection is based on a combination of priority and overall "cost" of
>> choosing that provider.  apk will prefer the highest priority provider
>> with the lowest cost (dependency chain length) that can yield a
>> satiable solution.
>>
>>> Now there is a "testapp" package, which has "testlib-a" in makedepends
>>> and links against "libtestlib.so.1". Therefore abuild puts
>>> "so:libtestlib.so.1" in the depends of "testapp". What we would like to
>>> achieve is, that whenever installing "testapp", it pulls in "testlib-a".
>>> But when "testlib-b" is already installed, it uses "testlib-b" instead
>>> of "testlib-a".
>>
>> testlib-b (libdrm) should have provider_priority 1, testlib-a
>> (libdrm-grate) should have provider_priority greater than 1.  The
>> provides field itself should be left alone.  The key is to set a
>> priority on both providers, otherwise APK will treat it as a collision
>> and behave as you describe.
>
> For what it's worth, I am open to adding provider_priority=1 to
> libdrm.  But it's not my package, so I prefer to hear from ncopa who
> maintains it first.  Otherwise, you will need to rebuild the package.
>
> William



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