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Re: patch, rfc - pcp-gui upgrade issue

To: Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: patch, rfc - pcp-gui upgrade issue
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:51:06 -0500
Cc: pcp <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <54EED206.3040009@xxxxxxxxxx> (Mark Goodwin's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:57:58 +1100")
References: <54EED206.3040009@xxxxxxxxxx>
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)
Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
>         pcp-libs = 3.9.10-8.el7 is needed by (installed)
> pcp-gui-3.9.10-8.el7.x86_64
> [...]

This explicit -libs dependency is quite possibly not even needed.  The
rpm packaging machinery identifies shared library dependencies
automatically, and by SONAME instead of rpm name, which is even
better.

% rpm -q --requires pcp-gui 
[...]
libpcp.so.3()(64bit)
libpcp.so.3(PCP_3.0)(64bit)
libpcp.so.3(PCP_3.2)(64bit)
libpcp.so.3(PCP_3.8)(64bit)
[...]

- FChE

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