[ARROW-15631] [Packaging][RPM] Add major version to libs packages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31090
• Assignee: Kouhei Sutou
• Reporter: Kouhei Sutou
• Created: 09/Feb/22 20:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:38
• Resolved: 13/Feb/22 21:43

Description

We always use arrow-libs for all versions for now. It has the following problems:

1. dnf update is failed until downstream packages are rebuilt for new release.
2. Users can't use different major versions such as 6.0.0 and 7.0.0 in the same system.

Example for 1.: Groonga https://groonga.org/ uses Apache Arrow and it provides RPM package built with arrow-libs. If Groonga's package is built with arrow-libs for 6.0.0, dnf update is failed when we release arrow-libs for 7.0.0. Because dnf update tries to update arrow-libs to 7.0.0 from 6.0.0 but Groonga's package depends on arrow-libs for 6.0.0 not 7.0.0. This isn't resolved until Groonga's package is rebuilt with arrow-libs for 7.0.0. If we provide arrow6-libs for 6.0.0 and arrow7-libs for 7.0.0, dnf update isn't failed without rebuilding Groonga's package with arrow7-libs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12385