On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Montag, den 30.01.2012, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Panu Matilainen:
On 01/30/2012 02:31 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2012, 23:38 -0500 schrieb Jon Stanley:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder if this rule is still needed. I know I'd loose backward compatibility with older rpm versions, but I don't want make a
I agree that a -common subpackage is silly for this, but are any of the RPM versions that this *wouldn't* work with still in supported releases?
Not in Fedora.
The only one I'd be concerned with is RHEL5, but I think even that works right, no?
I haven't tested it, but based on my experience with multi-arch file conflicts I *guess* it will not work on RHEL 5.
Sharing identical files between packages has always been allowed in rpm, that's not an issue.
Thanks for this clarification, Panu.
Before I go ahead and commit my changes, can I have an 'official' statement from the packaging committee? Should I file a trac ticket?
Yes, please do -- I can't think of a reason we wouldn't update the guidelines to allow this usage but I'm not the only FPC member and someone else on the Committee may remember some other problem thatI don't.
-Toshio