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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 13 12:31:57 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 13 July 2011 12:15, Christiaan Welvaart <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>> wrote:
><i> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065</A>
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</I>>><i> Using pkgconfig provides looks like an optimal option, we could start
</I>>><i> now, whenever we touch a spec we change to the pkgconfig provides, and
</I>>><i> gradually all the specs will be adapted.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> And for the packages that don't have .pc files we add:
</I>>><i> Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-release
</I>>><i> Provides: lib%{name}-devel = %{version}-release
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> or we could add them to all packages whether they have .pc files or
</I>>><i> not, but still always use pkgconfig() provides as BR in our specs.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Always adding the same provides regardless of what gets added automatically
</I>><i> is probably better and easier. I'd like to modify or clarify your proposal a
</I>><i> bit. When name starts with "lib", use %{oname}-devel and lib%{oname}-devel
</I>><i> as provides. oname must be defined in the specfile as the name without the
</I>><i> lib prefix. That is usually already the case and this macro is used as
</I>><i> argument for mklibname.
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</I>><i>
</I>><i>    Christiaan
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Agreed, liblib* shouldn't exist.
--
Ahmad Samir
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