[Mageia-dev] Copying dependencies from Release to Updates Testing

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 14:24:38 CEST 2011


On 8 September 2011 13:52, Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
>> Good question from MrsB : must we link only the needed binary RPMs, or
>> all those coming from the SRPM ?
>>
>> Example : qt4-database-plugin-sqlite-4.7.3-1.mga1.i586.rpm is needed,
>> will we link all packages from the qt4 SRPM or only
>> qt4-database-plugin- sqlite-4.7.3-1.mga1.i586.rpm ? The first option
>> is probably cleaner, but this means copy much more packages.
> Well we shoud links only the *requirements* for qt4-database-plugin-
> sqlite so probably not all qt4 packages (but most of them :/ )

No that would be only the *new requirements* of the updated package.
Eg: if amarok doesn't with XYZ devices work because we forgot to link it
with libXYZ, we should only copy libXYZ when uploading new amarok
package into updates


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