How to split a package to have a -devel one?

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Fri Jul 7 00:14:24 UTC 2006


Nikolai wrote:
> I am creating a RPM to submit to FE, but it is a development library. Since
> it has some .so* files and some .h files; I think the package should be
> split into a simpler package, with the .so* files and a -devel package with
> the .h files. How can I do this?

I find the OpenEXR case study near the bottom of
Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide [1] to be very useful as a guide for
creating -devel subpackages. :)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide
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