Michael Thomas wrote : > Sander Hoentjen wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:13 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > >> Michael Thomas wrote : > >> > >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Tcl > >> Quick comment : You should add the "= %{version}-%{release}" to the > >> "Provides:" in your document. > >> > >> Otherwise, Tcl seems completely broken when it comes to multilib... [1] > >> and you seem to be aware of the major issues as the TODO section shows. > >> But it contains tasks so critical that I wouldn't bother trying to push > >> these packaging rules forward until they are taken care of. For > >> instance, replacing the "/usr/lib/tcl8.4 -> /usr/share/tcl8.4" > >> symlink with a real directory is... errr... pretty much impossible for > >> rpm to do. You might be able to hack around it, but it'll be ugly. > > > > I thought about it and it might be best if this was done during the move > > to 8.5. That way you don't really have to deal with it, the first 8.5 > > package just has to use the new way. > > Yes, the 8.5 upgrade might be the best time to make the change with the > link. The other two items above it in the list in the guidelines can > still be done pre-8.5, though, and would allow existing extensions to be > migrated to these new guidelines ahead of the 8.5 release. > > It would be nice to do the upgrade to 8.5 before F7, but upstream is not > very responsive on giving updated estimates on the final 8.5 release > date. :( Actually, the "merge review" might be good for the change, and I see you're actively participating in it. I've made this bug depend on it, since I have "metakit" containing a tcl shared library which needs this fixed : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228177 Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 Load : 0.39 0.28 0.20 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
