[CentOS] rpm split

Fri Mar 18 22:17:42 UTC 2011
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>

Tried sending this a while ago, but looks like mailman blocked it?

>But i don't know how to write the spec file so a simple yum update will
>install both packages and it won't create any problems.

A few options here, create a %{name} .spec with:

# This is part one, or the main component
%description
%files
...

%package part_two
Requires: %{name}
...
%description part_two
Smaller part of %{name}
%files part_two
...

Check an example out, one I was using recently to build another was:
https://git.icinga.org/?p=icinga-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=icinga.spec;hb=HEAD

Hth,
jlc