Re: Packaging Question

[William Moreno]

*William Moreno Reyes*
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2017-10-26 7:57 GMT-06:00 Steve Dickson <SteveD(a)redhat.com&gt;:

>  Hello,
>
>  In an upcoming release the libnfsdimap library
>  will be rolled into the nfs-utils package.
>  Meaning nfs-utils will be install libnfsidmap
>  instead of the libnfsidmap package.
>
>  The libnfsidmap name will stay the same
>  so I'm hoping there will not be any problems.
>  Just the owner of the library will change.
>
>  Questions:
>
>  1) What do I do with the old libnfsidmap package
>     since it will no longer be updated.
>
>  
Sound likes you can retire the package.


>  2) How do I notify the packages that are dependent
>     on the libnfsidmap package to change their dependency
>     to nfs-utils
>
>  
You can include in the nfs-utils spec something like this:

Provides: libnfsidmap = %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: libnfsidmap < %{version}-%{release}

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_...



>  3) Will this cause any build problems now that nfs-utils
>     will be installing the new library?
>
>  4) What am I missing?
>
>  tia,
>
>  steved.
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