-devel rpm question

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kkeithle at redhat.com
Wed Jun 5 16:57:38 UTC 2013


When adding a new sub-package, what's the convention or rule regarding 
the associated -devel?

E.g. for glusterfs, with its associated glusterfs-devel; when adding 
glusterfs-api containing a new library, should the .so link and header 
be in glusterfs-api-devel, or can they be in the glusterfs-devel rpm?

It (obviously) occurs to me that having glusterfs-devel install the .so 
link and header file for a library that may not be installed would 
probably be frowned upon.

(Yes, I've read 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Devel_Packages)

Thanks

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Kaleb


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