Hi Jesse:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jesse Becker <haw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) I've made a few small changes to the ganglia.spc.in file (r2087
> and r2088) to use the %{version} tag instead of @VERSION@ in a few
> places. This is considered to be 'correct' according to RPM package
> building, and allows for easier upgrades if a user need to take the
> .spec file and update it themselves. The initial './bootstrap' will
> still have to be run, since @VERSION@ does need to be expanded at
> least once to define an RPM macro, and set a few items in the
> comments.
Sure, so instead of changing the version in 3 places, you only need to
change it in one place.
> 3) There are several sub-packages created by the specfile:
> libganglia-3_1_0
> ganglia-python
> ganglia-web (noarch)
> ganglia-devel
> ganglia-gmond
> ganglia-gmetad
>
> The ganglia-devel package includes a /usr/lib/libganglia.so *symlink*
> that points to the actual .so included in the libganglia package. I
> think that this symlink should be in the libganglia package. Is there
> a particular reason it is in ganglia-devel instead?
I think this is the convention for how -devel packages are packaged --
it just includes the symlink only for the .so file.
Take a look at how files are distributed between bzip2-libs and bzip2-devel.
Cheers,
Bernard
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