*William Moreno Reyes*
Colaborador Proyecto Fedora | Nicaragua
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2017-10-26 7:57 GMT-06:00 Steve Dickson <ste...@redhat.com>:

> Hello,
>
> In an upcoming release the libnfsdimap library
> will be rolled into the nfs-utils package.
> Meaning nfs-utils will be install libnfsidmap
> instead of the libnfsidmap package.
>
> The libnfsidmap name will stay the same
> so I'm hoping there will not be any problems.
> Just the owner of the library will change.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) What do I do with the old libnfsidmap package
>    since it will no longer be updated.
>
>
Sound likes you can retire the package.


> 2) How do I notify the packages that are dependent
>    on the libnfsidmap package to change their dependency
>    to nfs-utils
>
>
You can include in the nfs-utils spec something like this:

Provides: libnfsidmap = %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: libnfsidmap < %{version}-%{release}

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages



> 3) Will this cause any build problems now that nfs-utils
>    will be installing the new library?
>
> 4) What am I missing?
>
> tia,
>
> steved.
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