RFC: Soname in rpm name

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Mon Jan 24 10:43:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> A question to packagers: what would you think of a policy to add the library
> soname in package libraries ? [...]

If I understand your question correct: this is all done automatically
when rpm calculates the provides/requires (using the "find-provides"
script) when building the package.

Look at the package you generated with "rpm -qp --provides package.rpm"
and see what it shows.

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