That makes perfect sense, except that xrootd-client-compat has an explicit dependency on xrootd-libs:

# yum install xrootd-client-compat
Loaded plugins: kernel-module, priorities, refresh-packagekit, rpm-warm-cache, security
Setting up Install Process
403 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xrootd-client-compat.x86_64 1:4.1.2-1.slc6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: xrootd-libs(x86-64) = 1:4.1.2-1.slc6 for package: 1:xrootd-client-compat-4.1.2-1.slc6.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Error: Package: 1:xrootd-client-compat-4.1.2-1.slc6.x86_64 (xroot-stable)
Requires: xrootd-libs(x86-64) = 1:4.1.2-1.slc6
Installed: 1:xrootd-libs-4.2.0-1.slc6.x86_64 (@xroot-stable)
xrootd-libs(x86-64) = 1:4.2.0-1.slc6
Available: 1:xrootd-libs-3.3.6-1.slc6.x86_64 (xroot-stable)


Which come from line 309 from the spec file: 
http://xrootd.cern.ch/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/xrootd/tree/packaging/rhel/xrootd.spec.in#n309

Cheers,
Elvin

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From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Lukasz Janyst [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 May 2015 22:45
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Subject: Fw: xrootd client compat package

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Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 22:43:01 +0200
From: Lukasz Janyst <[log in to unmask]>
To: Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Elvin Alin Sindrilaru <[log in to unmask]>, "Michal
Kamil Simon" <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>,
<[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: xrootd client compat package


It is needed, but it is needed only once. There is not and should not
be any explicit dependency on the compat package anywhere, only
implicit soname dopendencies. Therefore, the exact name or version of
the compat package is completely immaterial. As long as there is a
package in the yum's universe that has appropriate implicit provide
tags for the wanted sonames, yum will know what to do.

In the long run these compat packages should come from a separate SRPM
and be on their own release cycle, ie. no cycle at all, since they
contain the code that does not change anymore. In the short term, just
use the one from 4.1.x, the one from 4.2.x would have been identical
modulo the version.

   Lukasz


On Mon, 18 May 2015 01:04:18 -0700
Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The client compat package is not needed at this point as the client
> side does not have any multi-versioned plugins. I think Lukasz is the
> best to answer this question but I think you can safely ignore this.
>
> Andy
>
> On Mon, 18 May 2015, Elvin Alin Sindrilaru wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Over the weekend we received a ticket from Linux support about the
> > fact that there is no xrootd-client-compat package for the last
> > release made by Lukasz.
> >
> > Do you have any idea what is the status of xrootd-client-compat?
> > How is it built? Do we still need it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Elvin
> >

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