Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (214 mails)

[David Haller <dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2010 09:02:04 David Haller wrote:
> > PS: a fine example, why I don't like versioned libfooN packages. In
> >     the set I build for, I'd have to find what distribution has what
> >     from libpoppler4 to libpoppler7 and do a %if 0%{?suse_version}
> >     cascade. Fun? Not. I'd prefer "libpoppler >= $ver" and
> >     "multiversion" should take care of the rest, though one might want
> >     a UI in zypper/yast to manage "multiversion", best together with a
> >     "cleanup" feature to remove old versions (but the last N, for
> >     example). At least, the libpopplerN seem to provide "poppler".
>
> Why are you doing that at all? You should be able to just do e.g.
> BuildRequires: libpoppler-devel
>
> and then the rpm will automatically add the dependency on the right library 
> version.

It will add a require on libpopplerN? So that libpopplerN get's pulled
in when installing the binary rpm? Oh, wait, the automatic require on
libpoppler.so.N should suffice. *hand -> forehead*

-dnh

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