On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:45 AM Nicolas Chauvet <kwiz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le jeu. 10 déc. 2020 à 13:41, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> a écrit
> :
> >
> > OpenEXR and ilmbase are several releases behind in Fedora and the main
> reason is that they combined OpenEXR & ilmbase and changed build systems to
> CMake.
> >
> > In digging into this, it makes sense. OpenEXR doesn't even provide a
> library named OpenEXR, instead:
> >
> > $ dnf repoquery --provides OpenEXR-libs
> > ...
> > libIlmImf-2_3.so.24
> > libIlmImf-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> > libIlmImfUtil-2_3.so.24
> > libIlmImfUtil-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> >
> > And strangely ilmbase provides mostly libraries that don't contain ilm!
> >
> > $ dnf repoquery --provides ilmbase
> > ...
> > libHalf.so.24
> > libHalf.so.24()(64bit)
> > libIex-2_3.so.24
> > libIex-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> > libIexMath-2_3.so.24
> > libIexMath-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> > libIlmThread-2_3.so.24
> > libIlmThread-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> > libImath-2_3.so.24
> > libImath-2_3.so.24()(64bit)
> >
> > And ALL of the headers for both packages get installed into
> /usr/include/OpenEXR!
> >
> > So here's my plan:
> >
> > 1. Repackage openexr from scratch including review request (Rex?)
> > 1a. Include appropriate Provides/Obsoletes for current OpenEXR and
> ilmbase packages
> > 2. Perform all testing and dependent rebuilds in a COPR first.
> > 3. Build openexr and dependencies in a side-tag
> > 4. Merge the side tag and retire OpenEXR and ilmbase
>
> I'm not quite following why you want to retire ilmbase ? Is the
> openexr package enough ?
>

Ever since 2.4.0, ilmbase (and others) are included in the openexr
releases.

https://www.openexr.com/downloads.html

I don't get the reason why you mention that library names are
> unrelated to the package name ? That's two separate things.
>

Of course, there's no technical reason that's a problem, but I would say
it's a bit odd. It was more a comment as to why I believe it makes sense to
combine the separate projected into one.

Thanks,
Richard
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