On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 1:39 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:29 PM Richard Shaw
<hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> NOTE: This is part of the ongoing saga that is the OpenEXR project. As
of 2.5.5 IlmBase was absorbed into the main OpenEXR library, and then with
3.x imath was split out as a standalone library.
>
> I've built openexr2 since many packages don't support openexr 3.x. I
also set openexr2-devel to conflict with openexr-devel since they should
not be installed at the same time. The project either supports OpenEXR 3 or
it doesn't.
>
> The question is I'm currently renaming the pkgconfig and cmake modules
to have a "2" at the end. This makes specifying which one in a spec file
easy, but this could mean having to patch the build systems of the projects
that use it.
>
> Does it work, and/or is it acceptable to put a less than version
requirement? I.e,
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> BuildRequires: pkgconfig(IlmBase) < 3
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> In the spec file instead? This would be much easier.
This is totally fine. I've done this in the past with OpenSSL stuff.
It's a totally reasonable way to handle it.
Awesome. I did some testing in mock to confirm it worked as expected but
didn't know if there were any guidelines about it.
Thanks,
Richard