On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Michael Behrisch
Thanks for your answer. I am not an expert here but if there is another way to enable this substitution for several packages without editing all specs, I would be happy to use it. Could you elaborate a little on how the virtual Provides could help here?
All RPM-based Linux distributions that use modern versions of RPM (Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE/SLE, CentOS/RHEL) have dependency generators, and one of the dependency generators included in RPM is one for using .pc files to generate Provides that indicate alternate names based on pkgconfig modules. For example, glib2-devel can also be referenced by any of its alternate Provides: pkgconfig(gio-2.0), pkgconfig(gio-unix-2.0), pkgconfig(glib-2.0), pkgconfig(gmodule-2.0), pkgconfig(gmodule-export-2.0), pkgconfig(gmodule-no-export-2.0), pkgconfig(gobject-2.0), pkgconfig(gthread-2.0). Essentially, the pkgconfig modules that a devel package has are universal names that you can use. Most development packages have them. Those that use CMake instead of autotools may also have cmake() Provides. For example, kf5-kinit-devel (Fedora) / kinit-devel (openSUSE) / lib64kf5init-devel (Mageia) all have an alternate Provides of "cmake(KF5Init)" that you can use instead of the package names. In most cases, you can get away with using exclusively common names and these generated Provides to get the correct packages, no matter the distribution. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org