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[Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>]

On Fr 11 Jul 2008 20:56:58 CEST Andrea Florio <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Lars Vogdt ha scritto:
> > What about creating a "pseudo" package like the gcc people do?
> > --------------
> > %package libopenbabel
> > Requires:   libopenbabel3
> >
> > %files libopenbabel
> > %defattr(-,root,root)
> > %doc README.SuSE
> >
> > %package libopenbabel3
> > Provides: libopenbabel2 = %version
> > Obsoletes: libopenbabel2 < %version
> > --------------
> > Other packages just need to have
> > Requires: libopenbabel
> > in their dependencies - the pseudo package will then require the
> > correct library version (so in the future, just change it to:
> > %package libopenbabel
> > Requires:   libopenbabel4
> > for example - no other changes in other packages have to be done.
> >
> > What do you think about this?
>
> and what's the problem?

The "old" way, every other package has
Requires: libopenbabel3
in his specfile - and must be adapted. With the new proposal, every  
other package except openbabel just has:
Requires: libopenbabel
and so only the openbabel package has to be adapted.
So it should just be a problem if another package really needs a fixed  
version - but this is a problem of this single package, then.

With kind regards,
Lars


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