[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:

>>> In your example, cauldron would probably require the libsomething.so.2, so
>>> if the backport requires could be adjusted to work with libsomething.so.1,
>>> we would keep the requires compatible with libsomething.so.2.  If that
>>> isn't possible, then it wouldn't be accepted.
>>>      
>> We cannot link a program with both libsomething.so.1 and
>> libsomething.so.2.
>>    
>
> If the spec file requires cannot be adjusted to accept linking with 
> whichever of the 2 is available, then in that case the backport wouldn't be 
> accepted - if my suggested restriction is accepted.

It's not adjusted in the spec file, it's built against the version that
is available in the repository when building the package, and require is
added automatically.

>
>>> I'm no expert of course, but it seems to me that it would be generally
>>> possible as long as there weren't important code changes made to make the
>>> backport work.
>>> So it would largely be a question of appropriately adjusting the specified
>>> requires.
>>>      
>> A lot of requires are generated automatically, we cannot change them
>> (and changing them would probably be wrong). And a lot of requires are
>> not versionned, but implicitly require the version available in the
>> same mageia release, without any guaranty that it works with a different
>> version.
>>    
>
> You mean generated automatically in the spec file ?  Surprising.

Generated by rpm find-requires scripts.

But discussing this if you don't know the basic functionning of rpm is a
waste of time, so end of discussion for me.