On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:09:00AM -0600, William Moreno wrote: > *William Moreno Reyes* > Colaborador Proyecto Fedora | Nicaragua > IRC: williamjmorenor Canales: #fedora-latam ; #fedora-ni > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Williamjmorenor > > 2017-10-26 7:57 GMT-06:00 Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Hello, > > > > In an upcoming release the libnfsdimap library > > will be rolled into the nfs-utils package. > > Meaning nfs-utils will be install libnfsidmap > > instead of the libnfsidmap package. > > > > The libnfsidmap name will stay the same > > so I'm hoping there will not be any problems. > > Just the owner of the library will change. > > > > Questions: > > > > 1) What do I do with the old libnfsidmap package > > since it will no longer be updated. > > > > > Sound likes you can retire the package. > > > > 2) How do I notify the packages that are dependent > > on the libnfsidmap package to change their dependency > > to nfs-utils > > > > > You can include in the nfs-utils spec something like this: > > Provides: libnfsidmap = %{version}-%{release} > Obsoletes: libnfsidmap < %{version}-%{release} It is also important to provide the archful name, so in addition to the above: Provides: libnfsidmap%{_isa} = %{version}-%{release} libnfsidmap currently Provides nfs-utils-lib, so might want to copy that over too. If it's very old, you can drop it. Just make sure nothing in the distro still uses it. Also, libnfsidmap-devel must be similarly obsoleted. It Provides: libnfsidmap-devel libnfsidmap-devel%{_isa} pkgconfig(libnfsidmap) Zbyszek > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages > > > > > 3) Will this cause any build problems now that nfs-utils > > will be installing the new library? > > > > 4) What am I missing? > > > > tia, > > > > steved. > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
