On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 06:01:14PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the process of splitting the 'tc' utility off from iproute > package. The motivation for this comes from two things: > > 1) Due to it's xt/ipt action, tc depends on iptables. > 2) iproute is part of the 'Core' group. > > These two in combination lead to iptables being pulled into Core as a > dependency although not strictly necessary - tc is not necessary for > basic system functionality and ip itself works fine without. iptables is also pulled in by systemd (at least), so this is not enough to get it out of core. > So far I added a new 'tc' subpackage to iproute.spec which will contain > tc, all related binaries and configs and relevant man pages. This > package depends on a version of iproute which is greater than the last > release before the split, which should prevent conflicts when updating. > > For user convenience though, I would appreciate if an iproute package > update from a pre-split version would automatically pull the tc > subpackage as well. Is this possible without adding a dependency from > 'iproute' to 'iproute-tc' (which would defeat the purpose, of course)? You can use Obsoletes to achieve this. systemd went through a similar split recently, see http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/systemd.git/commit/?h=f24&id=34bfceffe6cb26f5b5a9bdc5ab9c071eeb40f1c9 Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
