RFC: Soname in rpm name
Jeff Johnson
n3npq at nc.rr.com
Mon Jan 24 12:13:38 UTC 2005
Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>>Try with rpm -i.
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>Yeah OK. How about something that would be understood by depsolvers then ?
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Depsolvers (at least correctly written ones) use Provides:, not Name:,
for choosing
what packages to install.
The only reason for ornamenting the package name with gunk is to attempt
to provide
a clue of differences through primitive HTTP/FTP browser GUI's.
>This must be a common problem, isn't it ? What do you do when an important
>library changes its soname in the next version ?
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Usually a soname is slam-dunked, the library and every package that uses
the library
are changed at the same time. That works for the distro itself.
73 de Jeff
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