On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote: > 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.
I think it's better to use %{name}-devel for packages which don't have pkgconfig files. And keep pkgconfig() provides for packages with .pc files.