rpm.org, the story so far (summary)

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On 12/2/20 6:58 PM, Marcin Krol wrote:

> On 02-Dec-20 16:08, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
>> - mutual obsoletes (php* only problem?)
>>    I honestly don't know what to do with this, rpm behavior seems 
>> sane to me,
>>    maybe we should rethink how this is packaged (maybe replace with 
>> Conflicts
>>    and let administrator deal with it?)
>
> +1 for rethinking :-) Actually I did that long time ago in TLD. The 
> packaging was changed so all PHP versions are versioned (php_suffix) 
> and may fully coexist, including devel files. Default PHP for system 
> may be selected using alternatives. There were/are some quirks 
> especially when building additional PHP modules from specs, but 
> overally it works fine for me.

the current state in pld php packages is because 
lazy-ness/lack-of-time/no-interest, and you haven't ported your changes 
back :(

for bulding additional modules there's "-D php_suffix 52" support added 
to builder, not sure if TLD uses that infrastructure.