multlib and splitting packages
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Oct 25 19:59:42 UTC 2007
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Just to note, if you fix multiarch conflicts by moving libraries to
>> a -libs package, your new -libs package should obsolete the older
>> versions of the package where the libraries came from. This is so
>> that yum upgrades work properly.
>>
>> For example, if you previously had:
>>
>> foo-1.1-1.i386
>> foo-1.1-1.x86_64
>>
>> that had libraries, and had other file conflicts, and you split them
>> into:
>>
>> foo-1.1-2.x86_64
>> foo-libs-1.1-2.i386
>> foo-libs-1.1-2.x86_64
>>
>> you should add:
>> Obsoletes: foo < 1.1-2
>> in the %package section for foo-libs.
>
> I tested this out the other day (on f7), and this only works right if:
> -libs includes:
> Requires: %{name} ...
>
> Else, yum removed (Obsoletes) *all* instances of foo.
I take it back, with yum-3.2.7, it works beautifully.
-- Rex
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