@badshah400 - The "Provides: libipopt0" is actually incorrect.

For "regular package" (i.e. not shared libraries), we need this as a hint for the upgrade path. But shared libraries use automatic dependencies, and will pull in libipopt3 (via libipopt.so.3 automatic dependency) after a rebuild anyway.

But if there is a package which explicitly pulls in libipopt0 (for whatever reason), it will have the dependency fulfilled, but will likely break at runtime because opening libipopt.so.0 will not work.

Small hint to make soversion bumps harder to miss:

%define soversion 3
%define shlib libipopt%{soversion}
...
%files -n %{shlib}
%{_libdir}/lib*.so.%{soversion}*

Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) - about 2 years ago

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Thanks, makes a lot of sense. Appreciate the tips.