[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages

Tue Jul 19 08:32:24 CEST 2011

On 18 July 2011 22:37, Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> wrote:
+> Le 13/07/2011 12:41, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>>
+>> On 13 July 2011 12:34, nicolas vigier<boklm at mars-attacks.org>  wrote:
+>>>
+>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+>>>
+> ...
+>>>>
+>>>> Using pkgconfig provides looks like an optimal option, we could start
+>>>> now, whenever we touch a spec we change to the pkgconfig provides, and
+>>>> gradually all the specs will be adapted.
+>>>>
+>>>> And for the packages that don't have .pc files we add:
+>>>> Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-release
+>>>> Provides: lib%{name}-devel = %{version}-release
+>>>>
+>>>> or we could add them to all packages whether they have .pc files or
+>>>> not, but still always use pkgconfig() provides as BR in our specs.
+>>>
+>>> I think it's better to use %{name}-devel for packages which don't have
+>>> pkgconfig files. And keep pkgconfig() provides for packages with .pc
+>>> files.
+>>>
+>>>
+>>
+>> As spturtle said, conformity/consistency is good, i.e. all our
+>> packages should have the same Provides, that's better in the long run,
+>> and less confusing for new (and old too) packagers.
+>>
+>
+> Couldn't we have a macro for this? It would help in consistency, and will
+> avoid typo.
+> We could use it like this:
+> %mkdevelprov %{name} %{version}
+>
+> regards,
+> Luc
+>
+
+Good point. There'll be corner cases, but it should work for the
+majority of packages.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+