rpms/fftw/EL-4 fftw.spec,1.9,1.10 sources,1.3,1.4

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jan 2 21:01:07 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 14:34 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > What do you mean? The compatibility with the old rpmforge packages still
> > exists - fftw3(-devel) resolvs to fftw(-devel). Everything works as
> > before. The spec file is just a lot less garbled...
> 
> The actual name of the package in EPEL was purposely fftw3, as was 
> violently requested by rpmforge maintainers and users, to preserve more 
> compatibility.
> 
> Feel free to read the flames on rpmforge mailing list archives, if 
> you're interested in the history.  Else, I'd suggest not renaming the 
> package, please.

Well, in principle Fedora doesn't have to care about 3rd party repos.
But, as a helping hand the Obsoletes: and Provides: are in place,
offering a clean upgrade path and full compatibility with the old
rpmforge packages.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org




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