multlib and splitting packages

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 25 17:12:56 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Just to note, if you fix multiarch conflicts by moving libraries to
>>> a -libs package, your new -libs package should obsolete the older
>>> versions of the package where the libraries came from. This is so
>>> that yum upgrades work properly.
>> Please add this to the packaging guidelines.
> 
> I'm not seeing an obvious place that this fits.

Maybe add a new section that mentions what all packaging details to 
cover to avoid hacks in anaconda and get smooth upgrades.

Rahul




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