On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 19:19 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
1. Is it permitted to have a subpackage called
mylib-static which holds what is generally in a devel subpackage, and
Provides: mylib-devel = %{version}-%{release}
No.
2. Is it permitted to have the headers in
devel and the static library in -static and have
mylib-devel
Requires: mylib-static = %{version}-%{release}
Yes. But you'd still need to have any packages which link against the
static libraries BuildRequire: mylib-static.
~spot