multlib and splitting packages
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Oct 25 19:03:01 UTC 2007
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Just to note, if you fix multiarch conflicts by moving libraries to
> a -libs package, your new -libs package should obsolete the older
> versions of the package where the libraries came from. This is so
> that yum upgrades work properly.
>
> For example, if you previously had:
>
> foo-1.1-1.i386
> foo-1.1-1.x86_64
>
> that had libraries, and had other file conflicts, and you split them
> into:
>
> foo-1.1-2.x86_64
> foo-libs-1.1-2.i386
> foo-libs-1.1-2.x86_64
>
> you should add:
>
> Obsoletes: foo < 1.1-2
>
> in the %package section for foo-libs.
I tested this out the other day (on f7), and this only works right if:
-libs includes:
Requires: %{name} ...
Else, yum removed (Obsoletes) *all* instances of foo.
-- Rex
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