Comment 6 for bug 842973

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:14:31 -0000, Mattias Backman <email address hidden> wrote:
> The user should select the hwpack that corresponds to the revision of
> the Snowball targeted. That is lt-snowball-v2 or lt-snowball-v3. The
> combined hwpack which is simply called lt-snowball contains packages for
> both v2 and v3 and then the files clash on install.
>
> I agreed a while back to investigate how much work it would be to make
> l-m-c handle duplicates of packages like this. I wanted more info on the
> changes needed for Snowball V5 though, so we don't fix the problem now
> and need another fix when the new revision arrive.
>
> So this kind of hwpack is not supported by the tools. We would need to
> implement the snowball_v2_emmc and snowball_v3_mmc --dev options for
> this to work. I think a prerequisite would be for the different
> startupfiles debs to install the files to different paths so that they
> do not clash on install.

Yes, we're not going to support hwpacks containing two files that
conflict on install, so that would indeed be a prerequisite.

LT, What was the plan for the combined hwpack?

Thanks,

James