I've updated wiki page with what Neal said.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:11 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 19. 02. 19 2:26, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:31 PM Tom Stellard <tstel...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Would there be some way to opt out of this? In some cases,
> %{name}-devel
> >> Requires only %{name}-libs and not %{name}.
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps it's not obvious, but the idea here is that RPM will "sense"
> > what the name of the subpackage it depends on is, and generate the
> > correct strict dependency automatically.
> >
> > For example, foo, foo-libs, libfoobaz, and foo-devel exist, built from
> foo.spec.
> >
> > foo-devel requires libfoobaz.so.1 (provided by libfoobaz) and
> > libfoo.so.0 (provided by foo-libs).
> >
> > Currently, rpm generates the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" and
> > "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)" dependencies and leaves the rest to you. This
> > will change the behavior so that when it identifies that a subpackage
> > produced from the spec contains that dependency, it'll be replaced
> > with a strictly versioned dep on the subpackage. So instead of
> > "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)", it'll be "foo-libs%{?_isa} =
> > %{version}-%{release}". And the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" dependency
> > would be replaced with "libfoobaz%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}".
> >
> > If there's no requires that matches with a provides in another
> > subpackage that's built from the spec, rpm would not do anything, and
> > it'll be exactly as it is now.
> >
> > This is merely about optimizing requires across subpackages from the
> > same source package.
>
> Thank You, now it makes sense!
> This needs to be said in the change proposal.
>
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