-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > 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: >
But is this a packaging error, or an error with the model? If this is the only occurence of this, then I think it's a packaging bug, influenced by the fact that the dbX file names don't follow standards (were is libdb-3.so.3?). > $ ~/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 > I don't agree with providing something that looks like a filename, when it is not a filename, it will just confuse people. I would propose for "virtual-devel-libdb-3.3.so" Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE++Ff4rJK6UGDSBKcRAsH9AJ9yK23U7BPsAMGzIxIWDRr+pdvPGACfQMjP rdEBhjhkezQCJPkg3CcJp4E= =v+l5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
