Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Peter Backlund wrote:

> [snip]
>
>  
>
> > solution. I've searched a bit, and it seems that Mandrake and Debian both
> > have a policy to include the library soname in the package name :
> > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowToAdvanced#Library_policy
> >    
>
> Unrelated, but I have to ask: what is the purpose of defining
> name/version/release like this:
>
> %define name    gtkmm
> %define version 1.2.4
> %define release 1mdk
>
> and then:
>
> Name:           %{name}
> Version:        %{version}
> Release:        %{release}
>
> I've seen it in a number of spec files. 
>  

The is the "Marc Ewing School of Packaging" style, adopted by GNOME, and 
one of
the first attempts at generating *.spec files automagically from 
scripts, that still flourishes
(like a milk weed does.

There is no reason whatsoever to use %define's for name/version/release 
however.

> And please no "Well, Mandrake sucks!".
>  
MDK is RHEL optimized for the i686!

Perhaps MDK would be willing to tak over hosting of the endless 
optimization discussion from
fedora-devel too.

73 de Jeff