Re: RPM packaging and library versioning

[Jack Eidsness]

Remi's spec file already acheived what I was hoping for (but I was 
unable to conceive of in a complete picture).  I just didn't understand 
it was already a solved problem until he explained it.

-Jack Eidsness

Warren Young wrote:
> Jack Eidsness wrote:
>>
>>   I haven't made time to find a decent example, but I have a vague 
>> memory of some packages having a "-compat" counterpart, that 
>> simultaneously meets my package management expectations and allows 
>> multiple library versions to coexist.  
> 
> That would imply that we'd ship an RPM containing many versions of the 
> MySQL++ library, one for each major version we've shipped.  I don't 
> think we have a big enough problem to justify the labor that would 
> require.  That's more appropriate for more widely used libraries like 
> libmysqlclient, glibc, etc.
>