RFC: Soname in rpm name

Féliciano Matias feliciano.matias at free.fr
Mon Jan 24 11:44:05 UTC 2005


Le lundi 24 janvier 2005 à 11:58 +0100, Aurelien Bompard a écrit :
> $ sudo rpm -Uvh libkexif-0.2.1-0.fdr.1.i386.rpm

Try with "rpm -i".

> My point is that if the rpm name contained the soname, version 0.1 and
> version 0.2 could be installed at the same time, and I would not have to
> update all the packages depending on it immediatly.

It packages don't conflit you can install multiple packages with the
same name.
This is done with the kernel package :
[fmatias at one i386]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.10-1.736_FC3.mat.1
kernel-2.6.10-1.750_FC3.mat.1


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