multlib and splitting packages

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 18:19:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:09:59 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > 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.  
> >
> > Please add this to the packaging guidelines.  
> 
> I'm not seeing an obvious place that this fits.

Probably best to add it to the 'dealing with multilib' page you
referenced in all your bugs.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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