Re: The *.so files

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.

> 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?

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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