Re: Latest SPEC files for GNOME2

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:50, Chris Chabot wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have finished the todo items on my list for the spec files for the 
> > gnome 2 packages.
>
> Cool!  Have you looked at the latest spec files/packages on
> ftp.gnome.org?  In particular, things like gtk+, pango, ORBit2, and so
> on have been split into more packages, and removed the 2 from the file
> names.  Everyone except for me hates the renaming, but at least look at
> the library splits.
>
> The new rpms have -libs in a separate binary package.  This will let you
> install multiple versions of libs, something which tends to be important
> for GNOME.
It is probably important for unstable libs, but seems pointless for 
stable libs (like gtk+, etc are about to become).  It may make sense 
while gnome 2.0 still isn't out, but it doesn't seem like a particularly 
important thing to do (and just complicates packaging if people want to 
remerge things when we go stable).

Also, it doesn't really handle "stacks" of libraries.  I didn't release 
a new devel version of libglade for each new gtk+ release.  The 1.99.7 
release was good for a number of gtk+ releases, but you would get 
slightly different libraries (the dynamic dependencies would be different).

>  As an example from GNOME 1...  Say you have gnumeric and
> gtkhtml installed, and compiled against the same gnome-print, which is a
> few versions behind the latest.  A new gnumeric release is made, and
> linked against the latest version of gnome-print.  When you try to
> upgrade your copy of gnumeric, you find that it needs the new
> gnome-print, but when you try to upgrade gnome-print, it says that it
> will break gtkhtml.  Argh!
these are unstable libs, where such a split makes sense.  Unstable 
packages that we expect many people to use should try to allow multiple 
versions to be installed (as these examples do).

> The new split of packages will allow you to install the newer
> gnome-print-libs package, giving you two copies of the shared libraries
> for gnome-print.  One for each of gtkhtml and the new gnumeric.

James.

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