On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:39:33 PM CDT Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 16:19:23 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 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: > Exactly. libcurl conflicts with libcurl-minimal, which means that exactly > one of them will be installed on any Fedora system at a time. On a regular > system (server, desktop, etc.) it will always be libcurl. > > On the other hand, if you need to create a minimal installation of Fedora > (e.g. a base image for Docker), you will pick libcurl-minimal instead of > libcurl, to make the set of installed packages really minimal. > > > , or relying on the behavior of ldconfig to figure out which > > library you happen to get at a particular time. > > ldconfig will always pick /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 because there can be only > one file with that name installed at a time. And how do you transition when you need to add the full featured version? Dennis
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