On 10 July 2011 10:03, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 July 2011 06:37, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I've had a rather vague idea about standardising the virtual provides >> in the distro, there should be: >> Provides: %{name}-devel >> Provides: lib%{name}-devel >> >> either both of them in _all_ packages, or one of them in _all_ >> packages, so that we don't have to check urpmq --provides all the >> time. Personally, I am more inclined on having them both, so as not to >> break already working specs. >> >> For example: >> $ urpmq --provides lib64gudev1.0-devel-166-5.mga1.x86_64 >> libgudev-devel[== 166-5.mga1] >> pkgconfig(gudev-1.0)[== 166] >> devel(libgudev-1.0(64bit)) >> lib64gudev1.0-devel[== 166-5.mga1] >> lib64gudev1.0-devel(x86-64)[== 166-5.mga1] >> >> only libgudev-devel, so if I put BR gudev-devel in a spec it won't >> work, whereas I'd expect it to work since some other packages have >> such similar provides: >> $ urpmq --provides lib64dbus-1-devel >> libdbus-1-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1] >> libdbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1] >> dbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1] >> [...] >> >> >> WDYT? >> >> (If we agree to go one way or the other, will just fix them gradually >> over time). >> >> -- >> Ahmad Samir >> > > Adding to the above, spturtle has suggested using pkgconfig() > provides: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065 > > -- > Ahmad Samir >
Using pkgconfig provides looks like an optimal option, we could start now, whenever we touch a spec we change to the pkgconfig provides, and gradually all the specs will be adapted. And for the packages that don't have .pc files we add: Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-release Provides: lib%{name}-devel = %{version}-release or we could add them to all packages whether they have .pc files or not, but still always use pkgconfig() provides as BR in our specs. WDYT? -- Ahmad Samir