On Thursday 17 March 2016 08:57:19 Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > >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? > > Just a note on top of what Dennis asked: if curl minimal would lack > XML-RPC and GSSAPI support, FreeIPA client enrollment will be broken > completely. There are many uses of that within kickstart or cloud-init > files. I am not against keeping the GSSAPI support in libcurl-minimal. From the discussion, it sounds like the right thing to do. But what do you mean by XML-RPC? I am not aware of any such feature in (lib)curl itself. XML-RPC is usually implemented in higher-level libraries. If they use the http(s) implementation of libcurl, they will work on top of libcurl-minimal as well. Kamil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
