Re: bundled libraries

"Antonio T. sagitter" <sagitter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:01:09 +0100

Bundled libraries are permitted as long as they do not conflict with 
system libraries.
In your case, it does not happen in Fedora but in EPEL it does; so i 
would advice you to use a private lib directory in EPEL where
bundled .so libraries (generally unversioned libraries) will be installed.

See 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_beware_of_rpath

Of which libraries are we talking about?

On 24/12/20 14:17, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:45 AM Didier Fabert <didier.fabert@xxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:didier.fabert@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Hi,

    Yes the guidelines are clear for fedora. I miss tell that the
    package is
    present in fedora and epel repos and my question is more like this:

    Is it possible to mix bundled/system libs ? like using system libs (the
    must part in guidelines) for fedora packages and use bundled one for
    epel packages (because libs are too old)

That's a much more interesting question :)

The first line of the main EPEL guidelines[1] says that you must follow 
the Fedora packaging guidelines and that the EPEL links are for the 
exceptions for EPEL.

So if the library is not available in EPEL, then I would say the answer 
is yes, you can use the bundled library (even if you're not on Fedora).

For the 2nd question, can you use them if the ones in EPEL/RHEL are too 
old, I'd like to see more feedback from others. Theoretically 
dependencies in EPEL could be updated, but it has to be done very 
carefully. For RHEL packages, I tried filling a bug about 6 years ago 
and as far as I know it's still open, with little to no feedback from RH.

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