Nexuiz

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:56:06 +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:

> > > Has anyone tried to package nexuiz? Because I have. Results can be found
> > > at: http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/nexuiz-1.0-1/
> > > 
> > > It should be possible to include nexuiz into Fedora Extras as everything
> > > is released under the GPL.
> > > 
> > > Comments on the specfile are welcome.
> > 
> > Did not try to build it - but
> > 
> > Requires: %{name}-data libz.so.1 libvorbis.so.0 libvorbisfile.so.3
> > Requires: libjpeg.so.62
> > 
> > You can drop the specific library requires, rpm should figure that out.
> 
> But rpm doesn't. The binary isn't linked against these libraries but
> tries to load them during runtime.

That's something a comment in the spec file ought to explain. It also
means that these explicit soname dependencies may need to be revisited
periodically.