How to make .spec Requires for libXXX.so.VER

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/02/2015 09:33 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> It was reworked from ordinary DT_NEEDED to this dlopen() approach because
> librpm.so is (was) the only incompatible shared library dependency between
> various versions of RHELs/CentOSes and Fedoras.  So with dlopen()ed librpm one
> can take latest Fedora Rawhide rpm build and run the GDB binary in
> RHEL/CentOS.  This makes sense for non-x86* archs where a rebuild of new GDB
> from sources would take too much time.

I still don't get it. If librpm's SONAME changes between Fedora 
releases, these libs will be call incompatible, no matter if they will 
be dlopen'ed or linked directly.

Ralf