On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:36:12AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> IIRC, the suggestion that Toshio had wisely made, to resolve the core
> package naming and module package naming issue, was that the drupal
> package in Fedora (which is named 'drupal' and is version 6.x) include
> a virtual Provides:
>
> Provides: drupal6 = %{version}-%{release}
>
> Jon Ciesla, could you add this and roll it into a package update in
> Fedora? I'm sure any number of us could test it for you since it's
> not even a functional change, getting it into stable quickly.
>
> Then people who are packaging D6 modules could simply add this to
> their spec files:
>
> Requires: drupal6 >= 6.0
>
> And the same spec files will work continuously throughout Fedora and
> EPEL. (Toshio can correct me if I got his suggestion wrong, in which
> case I apologize yet again for being dense about this.)
>
>
Would this then obviate the need for the renaming of the whole stack, or
complement it?
I think the idea was supplemental in that earlier Fedora releases were not
going to rename but they would have the virtual provide so that addons could
Require: drupal6 and that would pull in the drupal package when appropriate.
however, the idea of renaming to drupal6 on later Fedora releases wasn't
something I raised in particular so I think that decision is up to you :-)
(IIRC, the argument for renaming was that it would be less work to maintain
a drupal6 package in sync across Fedora and RHEL releases and in parallel
with drupal(5) and eventual drupal7 releases.)
-Toshio