2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:02:33PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> 2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:10:31PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> Hi Fedora people!, >> >> >> >> I have been reading >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires. >> >> >> >> It says that we should avoid explicit requires... >> >> >> >> I want to make sure that I understood it. Is an "explicit requires" is both: >> >> >> >> 1) A full package: eg: mysql-libs >> >> 2) A versioned library file:libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 >> >> >> >> So, the right way should be: >> >> >> >> Requires: libmysqlclient.so >> >> >> >> Please fix me if I misunderstood that. >> >> >> > No. Listing a library in a Requires: tag at all is an explicit requires. >> > ie: >> > Requires: libmysqlclient.so >> > >> > is also not allowed. >> > >> > RPM is generally good about discovering what libraries a program needs to >> > run. So it will find that your program needs libmysqlclient.so.16 and >> > create a Requires on it automatically. You do not need to list it in your >> > package if this is the case. >> > >> > -Toshio >> > >> >> Thanks Toshio, can we say that explicit == added by hand == >> non-automagical ;-) ? >> > That would be accurate. I've added a sentence to the Guideline: > > """ > Explicit Requires are Requires added manually by the packager in the spec > file. > """ > > Hope that helps, > Toshio > > -- Great! Thanks Toshio. -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
