[Fedora-packaging] Question about File listeng in the spec file

Sergio Belkin sebelk at gmail.com
Tue Feb 22 00:26:15 UTC 2011


2011/2/21 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:46:02 -0300, Sergio wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> At http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines#Package_Review_Process
>> it states
>>
>> "A Fedora package must not list a file more than once in the spec
>> file's %files listings. (Notable exception: license texts in specific
>> situations)."
>>
>> But what about a subpackage "static" (library)? What if there are some
>> basic documentation files common to both non-static and static
>> packages?
>
> Very likely there are other files which are shared, e.g. header
> files. It's not necessary to duplicate them either. You can make
> the -static pkg require the -devel pkg.
> --
Thanks Michael that does the trick
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