On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:24:30 +0200, AS (Andreas) wrote: > > The difference is that the subpackages may need the new symbols immediately > > when installing the packages, whereas future builds of external packages > > would link with the latest library version that has been released before > > and is the one available in the build system's buildroot. > > I don't understand. How is the contents of the buildroot relevant to > "yum install foo"? I think you do understand, but probably you just want to reinvent the wheel. Let's see: No external package can build with new features of the new "foo-libs" package prior to making that package available in the buildroot. If "foo" is the base package of "foo-libs", and this -libs package has added symbols needed by programs in package "foo", an older release of "foo-libs" would not suffice. On the contrary, all programs linked with an older foo library will continue to work. For the corner-case that an update of a program in an arbitrary package strictly needs a specific minimum version of foo-libs, the packager may add an explicit dependency according to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires You don't want to enforce explicit dependencies on library pkg NEVR in _all_ packages that use the library, do you? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
