Re: proposed recommendation - missing devel packages

[Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxx>]

On 9/23/21 9:00 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 23. 09. 21 5:41, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > -Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
> > +Requires: utf8proc%{?_isa} >= %{version}-%{release}
>
> I'd assume that anybody (even you) might need to rebuild this package in 
> EPEL at any time for various reasons and %{release} might be larger than 
> the RHEL package release. This >= requireement will break.
>
> Also, if the RHEL version gets updated to e.g. 2.1.2 (unlikely, but not 
> impossible), the EPEL devel package will still be able to be installed, 
> which is probably undesired.
>
> If you don't need to follow RHEL's release number that much, I suggest 
> to do:
>
> Requires: utf8proc%{?_isa} = %{version}
>
> And if you do, I suggest to do:
>
> %global rhel_release 5
> Requires: (utf8proc%{?_isa} = %{version} with utf8proc%{?_isa} >= 
> %{version}-%{rhel_release})
>
> You could even incorporate the RHEL's release to the EPEL's release, if 
> you feel like it:
>
> %global rhel_release 5
> %global base_release 1
>
> Release:  %{rhel_release}.%{base_release}%{?dist}
>
>
> Side note: I also suggest to BuildRequire the runtime requirement (sans 
> %{?_isa}) and track the package in Koschei. That way, you can get a 
> notification if the requirement was broken by an RHEL update and the 
> EPEL package needs to be updated as well.

Thanks, good ideas!

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