rawhide report: 20080211 changes

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 11:08:51 UTC 2008


On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:21:55 +0100, Xavier Bachelot wrote:

> Ok, so if I understand correctly what has been said in the thread, what 
> we want is not compat-xerces-c but xerces-c27. I have forked a new spec 
> from the original xerces-c spec. It should be almost good to go (I still 
> need to clean up the descriptions and summaries. I may also remove the 
> -doc subpackage).
> 
> http://washington.kelkoo.net/fedora/SPECS/xerces-c27.spec
> 
> The last remaining problem is the /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so and 
> /usr/lib/libxerces-depdom.so symlinks. They will conflict with the 
> regular xerces-c-devel package. They are currently excluded. Is that the 
> right thing to do ?

No, because then you cannot compile/link against those libraries.

If Fedora policies do permit explicit "Conflicts:" with xerces-c-devel,
do that. Else relocate any conflicting files to a new directory, so you
can link with  -L/usr/lib/xerces-c-2.7 -lxerces-c  for example.




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