Re: The *.so files

onsdagen den 6 november 2002 21.37 skrev Greg Stein:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:31:50PM +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have packaged subversion v0.14.5 r3578 for Mandrake Linux 9.0/Cooker,
> > but stumbled upon an issue. The common practise in Mandrake Linux is to
> > package the "*.so" files in a devel subpackage.
>
> Um. I suspect that you have that backwards. Typically, the regular package
> has the *.so files, and -devel has the .a and .la files.

Could very well be.

> > Now, this doesn't seem to work with subpackage since for example the
> > client won't work without these "*.so" files. What should I do, any
> > suggestions besides "breaking" the Mandrake way of doing things?
> >
> > My rpm packages are using parts and are based on the provided rpm spec
> > file, but provides these binary packages:
> >
> > libsubversion0-0.14.5-0.r3578.2mdk
> > libsubversion0-devel-0.14.5-0.r3578.2mdk
> > libsubversion0-static-devel-0.14.5-0.r3578.2mdk
>
> What does libsubversion0 install if not the *.so files?

It did contain all libraries not ending with *.so, now as I got sick of this I
threw those ones in too and everyone's happy. Mandrake has a similar "package
verifying tool" (rpmlint) as debian, and I got a lot of complaints about
these files not being in a devel package. Anyway the subversion packages in
Mandrake Linux Cooker should work now.

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