Wow.
john wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 8 03:38:43 UTC 2008
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Alan Evans <ame.fedora <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> It's just that in this case, I didn't expect updating subversion to
>> pull in a new version of openoffice! And sendmail???
>
> If packages A and B both depend on library L and if Rawhide has a newer version
> of L with a different soname major version (the number which indicates which
> versions of a library are binary-compatible with each other), then you cannot
> update package A without updating B, even if A and B are otherwise completely
> unrelated (because updating A drags in L which drags in the updated B because
> the newer L is no longer compatible with the old B - dependencies work both
> ways in this case). If L is a core system library, there can be a lot of
> packages like B.
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
Isn't it possible to have multiple versions of a library installed? This
would let you install A and L.new and keep B and L.old, and everything
should be fine. Or am I just confused? Is this a limitation of RPM or
just a problem with the way things get packaged?
Thanks,
John
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