Hi Frederic, Thanks for putting some of my suggested changes through, can we discus the other ones?
- remove BuildRequires: automake. this one is quite important, since it blocks autoconf2.5 from being installed with slbd. It actually is an redundant BuildRequires, since it is already Required by rpm-build. Which, together with basesystem (and BuildRequires) are the minimum requirement for building rpms. See also: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BuildRequires - changing the .so Provides / Requires to .dso (or something else, but not ..so). I *urgently* suggest that this is done before the next release. Once this is put into a release, it will need to stay and be maintained. Why does this need to change? Well, because at this moment we can't really differentiate between .so devel dependencies (http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/rpm_devel_dependencies.html) and _other_ .so dependencies. The one example I've seen is: $ rpm -q --provides libdb3.3-3.3.11-14mdk db3 = 3.3.11-14mdk libdb-3.3.so libdb3.3 = 3.3.11-14mdk While libdb3.3-devel (when it is rebuilt) will _also_ provide libdb3.3.so: $ ~/test06.sh libdb3.3-devel libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb-3.3.so libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb_cxx-3.3.so libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb_tcl-3.3.so This screws up the whole model. I had not taken this into account, but now that I've come across it, I think we need to change this, _before_ a release is made. What I'm proposing is that this is changed to: $ ~/test06.sh libdb3.3-devel libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb-3.3.dso libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb_cxx-3.3.dso libdb3.3-devel Provides: libdb_tcl-3.3.dso Please take a look at the attached rpm-4.2-autoreq.patch.bz2 I know what the impact is --> rebuilding _many_ packages (and probably quite some cooker users complaining), but I think we better do it now, and implement it correctly (while we can), than implement something that (we know) isn't 100% and that we'll need to maintain for a longer period of time. - some x86_64 related changes to the .spec file. Remove this part: 307,320d305 < # FIXME: hack to get libraries in the right place on lib64 platforms < if [[ "%{_libdir}" != "%{_prefix}/lib" ]]; then < mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} < mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/*.so* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/ < mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/*.a $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/ < mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/*.la $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/ < fi < < # Likewise for Python files until their location is cleaned and standardized < if [[ "%{_libdir}" != "%{_prefix}/lib" ]]; then < mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} < mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/python* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/ < fi < 644a630,638 as keeping it in breaks the build on x86_64. and comment out patch #43, as it doesn't apply. I don't know what the exact impact / purpose is of this patch, but commenting it out it seems to work (at least, on the CSC opteron). regards, Stefan van der Eijk
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