Bug 524910

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> =======================
> Quicksynergy dependencies are satisfied by both Synergy and Synergy-plus,
> but the current package depends exclusively on synergy. 
> 
> Solutions may be to depend on either of the two packages, which is elegant, but
> I don't really know if rpm allows it, or to depend on the synergyc and synergys
> executables. Which is ugly, but certainly works.  

Well I prefer to avoid file based dependencies where possible.

A better solution is to have Synergy and Synergy-plus provide a virtual provide and "Provides: foo" and make quicksynergy depend on that.

No idea what we should use for "foo" though.

> Well I prefer to avoid file based dependencies where possible.
> 
> A better solution is to have Synergy and Synergy-plus provide a virtual provide
> and "Provides: foo" and make quicksynergy depend on that.

Can't we just have synergy-plus provide a virtual provide for "synergy"?


 
> No idea what we should use for "foo" though.  

"synergy-app"?

(In reply to comment #2)
> Can't we just have synergy-plus provide a virtual provide for "synergy"?

This definitely seems like the right thing to do, so I'll do that. See bug #538179.

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FYI, synergy-plus has been providing synergy = %{version}-%{release} for F-13 and obsoleting synergy which is no longer included. I'm not sure it's worth disrupting anything on F-11 or F-12 with the same change.

Actually, making the simple change of providing synergy in the F-11 and F-12 package shouldn't be too risky. What would be more problematic, which I won't include, is obsoleting synergy from synergy-plus for F-11 and F-12.

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc11.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc11.1

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc12.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc12.1

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc11.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update synergy-plus'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc11.1

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc12.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update synergy-plus'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc12.1

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc11.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

synergy-plus-1.3.4-3.fc12.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.