devel package problem

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

>> I have the package katapult
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196262
>>
>> rpmlint asks me to put the static libraries in -devel, which I did.
>> Now I have katapult and katapult-devel
>>
>> during installation, I fell on
>>
>> root(i386)[0]$rpm -ivh katapult-*
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>       libkatapult.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>>       libkatapultcatalog.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>>       libkatapultdisplay.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>>
>> the katapult package needs
>> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}.so
>> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}catalog.so
>> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}display.so
>> to install
> 
> FYI, I think you're thinking these are static libs?  They're not, but 
> they're not -devel-type symlinks to shared libs either.  In short, put 
> them in the main pkg.

Ignore me here.  (too early, not enough coffee).  Mike's comment was 
much closer to the mark.

I commented in the bugzilla submission.


-- Rex