Drupal provides addition?

[Jon Ciesla]

Jon Ciesla wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:36:12AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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>>     
>>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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.)
>>>>
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>>> Would this then obviate the need for the renaming of the whole stack, or 
>>> complement it?
>>>
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>>>       
>> 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
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>>     
> Done for F-14 and F-13.  Skipping F-12 due to imminent EOL.
>
> -J
>
>   
And rawhide of course. 

-J

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