Kamil Dudka (kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Are you reading it from the specfile? > > It is just an implementation detail of the packaging (the RemovePathPostfixes > feature of rpm). The string you mentioned neither appears in the SONAME, nor > in any file installed by the RPMs in question. ... which means if the SONAME is the same, you either are dealing with Conflicts:, or relying on the behavior of ldconfig to figure out which library you happen to get at a particular time. Neither of those sounds like a great idea. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx