James Kosin wrote: > When you build a new package (say for postgresql) and you are > leaping version number, say from 7.x to 8.x, How do you go about > updating the other dependencies (other packages that require a > library in 7.x) that doesn't exist in the new package? Without > completely scrubbing the other packages and rebuilding them > afterwards that is. If there are packages that truly require postgresql 7.x, then you will need to rebuild them if you update to postgresql 8.x. If these packages have a bogus requirement on postgresql 7.x and they really don't need it, then file bugs. Odds are though that the requirements are on the postgresql libraries and they really are needed. > Maybe another way: Can you specify the postgresql path while > building new rpms for the dependent packages, so they see the new > package libraries instead of the old? Without either forcing the > install of the new package, or uninstalling all the dependent > packages then rebuilding. You could possibly build the new packages with a different name, like postgresql8. You would also probably need to change the location that the libraries and perhaps even binaries were installed as well. This may or may not be an easy task. I've not built or looked at the postgresql sources myself. Fedora does ship some libraries and programs like this. Two examples I can think of are gnupg and gnupg2, and db4 and compat-db. There generally need to be pretty good reasons to do this though, and simply avoiding rebuilding dependent applications isn't good enough for Fedora. ;) -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm not fat. I am a nutritional overachiever.
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