Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs

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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> It isn't possible to build an e2fsprogs via "make rpm" on SuSE and have it
> install cleanly, because they split out some of the libraries into separate
> packages.
> 
> We've got the current patch to the .spec file, but I'm open to discussion
> if it is more desirable to change the .spec to continue to build separate
> RPMs (though that is more of a distribution hassle and might need major
> changes in the .spec file).
> 

FWIW, I also have an RFE assigned to me for RHEL/Fedora to split up our
e2fsprogs packages for libcom_err and libuuid... since many
non-filesystem things now require them.   So, this is sort of going in
the opposite direction.  :)

Any idea how many distros already split it out?

-Eric

> Index: e2fsprogs-1.40.2/e2fsprogs.spec.in
> ===================================================================
> --- e2fsprogs-1.40.2.orig/e2fsprogs.spec.in
> +++ e2fsprogs-1.40.2/e2fsprogs.spec.in
> @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
>  Url: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
>  Prereq: /sbin/ldconfig
>  BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
> +%if %{_vendor} == "suse"
> +Obsoletes: libcom_err < %{version}
> +Provides: libcom_err = %{version}
> +%endif
>  
>  %description
>  The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
> 
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