On 2011-10-05, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My particular reason for asking is that I'm looking at a soname bump for > libpng, and if repoquery is telling me the truth, there are about 1200 > packages that will need to be rebuilt. > Few days ago I've been asked by Marcela how should I cope with this problem (just another library). I proposed this solution: Package current shared library (and only the library, no development files or dodocumentation or bundled tools) as new package. I call the new package `shaddow package' not to confuse with already existing `compat' packages (that should deliver full-featured environment as header files). This shaddow package will RPM-provide current SONAME, thus after injecting this package into repositories, you can fluently upgrade library in the original package and then rebuild all reverse dependencies (i.e. applications like gimp) without any stress. The shaddow package will get pulled into build root automatically by the SONAME provide. Once all depending packages are rebuilt, the shaddow package becames unnecessary, but you can keep it living in repositories because it can be reused on next SONAME upgrade just by moving then-current library into the shaddow package. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
