On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:16:58 +0100, Michael wrote: > $ rpm -qR mono-winforms | grep ^lib > libgdiplus-devel > > Sorry, this is inacceptable. -devel packages ought to stay optional. > Not only does this break rpmdev-rmdevelrpms, > > $ sudo rpmdev-rmdevelrpms -y > [...] > ...whose removal would cause unresolved dependencies: > mono-winforms-2.0.1-12.fc10 requires libgdiplus-devel > Not removed due to dependencies. > > and it also pulls in pkg-config and leads to broken pkg-config deps: > > $ cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgdiplus.pc | grep Req > Requires: glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gthread-2.0 > > Looking at mono.spec, the file doesn't explain this. With luck I found > this F8 ticket: > > missing link ln -s libgdiplus.so.0.0.0 libgdiplus.so > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/426519 > > Is that the reason for the unusual "Requires" of a -devel pkg? > Do you only need the libgdiplus.so link? > > Can't mono-winforms be patched to accept libgdiplus.so.0 instead? Old story it seems. Bugzilla 380131 and several others, which complain about this too, have been closed as duplicate. Bz 426519 now contains a demo patch. There are probably other ways to do it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
