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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 10 July 2011 10:03, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 July 2011 06:37, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've had a rather vague idea about standardising the virtual provides
>> in the distro, there should be:
>> Provides: %{name}-devel
>> Provides: lib%{name}-devel
>>
>> either both of them in _all_ packages, or one of them in _all_
>> packages, so that we don't have to check urpmq --provides all the
>> time. Personally, I am more inclined on having them both, so as not to
>> break already working specs.
>>
>> For example:
>> $ urpmq --provides lib64gudev1.0-devel-166-5.mga1.x86_64
>> libgudev-devel[== 166-5.mga1]
>> pkgconfig(gudev-1.0)[== 166]
>> devel(libgudev-1.0(64bit))
>> lib64gudev1.0-devel[== 166-5.mga1]
>> lib64gudev1.0-devel(x86-64)[== 166-5.mga1]
>>
>> only libgudev-devel, so if I put BR gudev-devel in a spec it won't
>> work, whereas I'd expect it to work since some other packages have
>> such similar provides:
>> $ urpmq --provides lib64dbus-1-devel
>> libdbus-1-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
>> libdbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
>> dbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> (If we agree to go one way or the other, will just fix them gradually
>> over time).
>>
>> --
>> Ahmad Samir
>>
>
> Adding to the above, spturtle has suggested using pkgconfig()
> provides: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065
>
> --
> Ahmad Samir
>

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.

WDYT?

-- 
Ahmad Samir