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.
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Jussi Lehtola
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