[RFC] Braking nfs-utils into -devel and -libs rpms.
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jan 3 21:14:08 UTC 2006
Steve Dickson wrote:
> Over the last year or so there has been
> a number of libraries added nfs-utils rm for
> the v4 and gssapi support as well as an
> upstream lib (libevent) that is not in
> the FC release.
...
> I would like to break up the current nfs-utils
> into three different rpms:
>
> nfs-utils - would include the daemons and init scripts
> nfs-utils-libs - libnfsidmap.so, libgssapi.so, librpcsecgss.so
> nfs-utils-devel - header files that a currently installed
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Does this sound reasonable?
-devel makes sense. -libs makes sense only if you need the libs
separated (ie, multi-arch), else just keep the libraries in the core
nfs-utils pkg.
> 2) I know there is a number of packages that do
> this but is there a package that does it
> the "right way" that I can use as an example?
This method is as good as any.
> 4) The needed upstream library, libevent, should that
> be included in the nfs-utils rpm or should it be
> in its own or include in another rpm?
IMO, if upstream packages it(libevent) separately, so should you.
-- Rex
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