libgnomecanvas owns %{_libdir}/libglade

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 7 13:11:03 UTC 2008


On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:08:10 +0900
Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> Debarshi Ray wrote, at 11/07/2008 09:13 PM +9:00:
> >>> I need to put a symlink in %{_libdir}/libglade/2.0/ [1] and found
> >>> that it is libgnomecanvas that owns it and not libglade in Fedora
> >>> 9.
> >>>
> >>> [rishi at freebook ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libglade/
> >>> libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2.fc9.x86_64
> >>> [rishi at freebook ~]$
> >>>
> >>> Is this how it is supposed to be? Or is this a bug?
> > 
> >> Neither libglade nor libglade-devel include the %{_libdir}/libglade
> >> directory or anything within it.
> > 
> > Maybe I was not very clear. I used "libglade" to mean the any of the
> > libglade packages -- 1.0 and 2.0.
> > 
> > My main objective is to know whether a package that is going to put
> > a symlink in %{_libdir}/libglade/2.0/ would need to have 'Requires:
> > libgnomecanvas' because, if not anything, it looks a bit odd to me
> > since it looks related to libglade.
> 
> libgnomecanvas has the dependency on libglade-2.0.so.0,
> libgnomecanvas.src has "BuildRequires: libglade2-devel", so
> I guess %_libdir/libglade{,/2.0} must be owned by libglade2. not
> by libgnomecanvas.

You might expect so, but it's not the case:

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libglade/{,2.0/}
libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2.fc9.x86_64
libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2.fc9.x86_64

Paul.




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