Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (65 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:44:43PM +0200, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2010/7/28 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>:
> > I'm trying to package up the liboauth library (needed for my bti tool as
> > twitter is about to require oauth authentication soon) and I'm getting
> > the following error from rpmlint:
> >
> >        liboauth.i586: E: shlib-policy-name-error (Badness: 10000) liboauth0
> >        Your package contains a single shared library but is not named after 
> > its
> >        SONAME.
> >
> > My .spec file seems sane and simple, yet I can't figure out the real
> > issue here.  Odds are it's a problem in the original package, as I can't
> > see any other distro packaging it yet and it's very new.
> >
> > My package is at:
> >        
> > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=liboauth&project=home%3Agregkh
> >
> > if anyone wants to take a look at it and tell me how badly I messed it
> > up :)
> >
> > And yes, I did read the information at:
> >        http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy
> > but can't find anything relevant to this issue there, but I might be
> > totally missing the relevant portion.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Since the soname of the library is liboauth.so.0 the package that
> contain it must be named liboauth0, but your package is named liboauth
> (lacks the 0 at the end). You just need to rename it.

Ah, thanks, that makes a bit more sense, but not entirely, why don't all
libraries have the N at the end of their package names?

> Note that the devel package must be named liboauth-devel, not
> liboauth0-devel. So you can't do "%package devel", instead you will
> need "%package -n liboauth-devel".

Thanks, that makes sense.

greg k-h
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