[CentOS-devel] libmp (gmp) conflicts

Fri Jun 3 10:55:46 UTC 2016
Antonio Trande <anto.trande at gmail.com>

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On 06/02/2016 09:11 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/02/2016 03:57 AM, Antonio Trande wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> gmp-4.3.1-10.el6 provides these libraries:
>> 
>> libgmp.so.3 -> libgmp.so.3.5.0 libgmp.so.3.5.0 libgmpxx.so.4 ->
>> libgmpxx.so.4.1.0 libgmpxx.so.4.1.0 libmp.so.3 ->
>> libmp.so.3.1.14 libmp.so.3.1.14
>> 
>> 'libmp.so' from 'gmp' conflicts with same library provided by
>> 'mp' package that I wish to include on Epel6 repositories.
>> 
>> Is it reasonable for you splitting off libmp.so from 'gmp' in a 
>> sub-package ?
> 
> I'd add to what wolfy stated by pointing out that we're not the
> only 'EL' out there. If we made this change, it would still be
> incompatible with EPEL, because EPEL builds against RHEL, not
> CentOS. This would introduce incompatibilities between Scientific
> Linux, RHEL, CentOS and any of the other variant builds out there.
> 
> Wolfy is correct. Your best course of action is to submit this as a
> bug via redhat's bugzilla.
> 

Thanks for your replies.
I'm going to package 'mp' libraries in a private directory
(/usr/lib/mp) for EPEL6.

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