From: Andreas Dilger Subject: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:14:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20070919061404.GA1628@schatzie.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Theodore Ts'o , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([74.0.229.162]:57044 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750962AbXISGNl (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org It isn't possible to build an e2fsprogs via "make rpm" on SuSE and have it install cleanly, because they split out some of the libraries into separate packages. We've got the current patch to the .spec file, but I'm open to discussion if it is more desirable to change the .spec to continue to build separate RPMs (though that is more of a distribution hassle and might need major changes in the .spec file). Index: e2fsprogs-1.40.2/e2fsprogs.spec.in =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs-1.40.2.orig/e2fsprogs.spec.in +++ e2fsprogs-1.40.2/e2fsprogs.spec.in @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Url: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ Prereq: /sbin/ldconfig BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root +%if %{_vendor} == "suse" +Obsoletes: libcom_err < %{version} +Provides: libcom_err = %{version} +%endif %description The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.