On Saturday, February 23, 2019 7:21:36 PM EST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:26:58PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:31 PM Tom Stellard <tstel...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Would there be some way to opt out of this? In some cases,
> > > %{name}-devel
> > > Requires only %{name}-libs and not %{name}.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps it's not obvious, but the idea here is that RPM will "sense"
> > what the name of the subpackage it depends on is, and generate the
> > correct strict dependency automatically.
> >
> > For example, foo, foo-libs, libfoobaz, and foo-devel exist, built from
> > foo.spec.
> > foo-devel requires libfoobaz.so.1 (provided by libfoobaz) and
> > libfoo.so.0 (provided by foo-libs).
> >
> > Currently, rpm generates the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" and
> > "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)" dependencies and leaves the rest to you. This
> > will change the behavior so that when it identifies that a subpackage
> > produced from the spec contains that dependency, it'll be replaced
> > with a strictly versioned dep on the subpackage. So instead of
> > "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)", it'll be "foo-libs%{?_isa} =
> > %{version}-%{release}". And the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" dependency
> > would be replaced with "libfoobaz%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}".
>
>
> I'm not saying it's right or wrong (but probably it's more "right"):
> However this does change the actual semantics, I think. I mean,
> previously "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" might have been satisfied by an
> older -libs package, or by another package which happens to provide
> libfoobaz.so.1. I wonder if anything relies on that?
>
> Rich.
>
>
> > If there's no requires that matches with a provides in another
> > subpackage that's built from the spec, rpm would not do anything, and
> > it'll be exactly as it is now.
> >
> > This is merely about optimizing requires across subpackages from the
> > same source package.
> >
> >
> >
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> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.orgI definitely hope there is a way to opt out, as, often, it is not required to have the exact same version, so long as the soname has not been bumped. There are very few instances that I can think of where an soname bump is not done when ABI changes. Though where I know that to be the case, it's *bad*, and affects many other things.. So I can see the reasoning. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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