diff --git a/hdf5.changes b/hdf5.changes
index 840abbd..287d9f9 100644
--- a/hdf5.changes
+++ b/hdf5.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug 21 09:45:05 UTC 2015 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Currently the regular, openmpi, and mpivachi2 versions of the
+  library packages all provide the exact same libraries.  So any
+  package built against the -devel package will end up with an
+  "unresolvable" build error because there are multiple versions
+  of the library it can use. To avoid this, I have added generic
+  provides for the library package so packages can depend on the
+  version they really need, avoiding these build issues.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 13 07:42:07 UTC 2015 - badshah400@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/hdf5.spec b/hdf5.spec
index 2979c84..55fdee8 100644
--- a/hdf5.spec
+++ b/hdf5.spec
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ with HDF5 files.
 %package -n %{libname}-%{sonum}
 Summary:        Shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname} = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname} < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}-%{sonum}
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
@@ -167,6 +170,9 @@ This package contains the HDF5 runtime libraries.
 %package -n %{libname}-%{sonum}-openmpi
 Summary:        Shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname}-openmpi = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname}-openmpi < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}-%{sonum}-openmpi
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
@@ -191,6 +197,9 @@ This package contains the openmpi version of the HDF5 runtime libraries.
 %package -n %{libname}-%{sonum}-mvapich2
 Summary:        Shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname}-mvapich2 = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname}-mvapich2 < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}-%{sonum}-mvapich2
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
@@ -215,6 +224,9 @@ This package contains the mvapich2 version of the HDF5 runtime libraries.
 %package -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}
 Summary:        High-level shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname}_hl = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname}_hl < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
@@ -239,6 +251,9 @@ This package contains the the high-level HDF5 runtime libraries.
 %package -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}-openmpi
 Summary:        High-level shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname}_hl-openmpi = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname}_hl-openmpi < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}-openmpi
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
@@ -264,6 +279,9 @@ runtime libraries.
 %package -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}-mvapich2
 Summary:        High-level shared libraries for the HDF5 scientific data format
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Other
+# To avoid unresolvable errors due to multiple providers of the library
+Provides:       %{libname}_hl-mvapich2 = %{version}
+Obsoletes:      %{libname}_hl-mvapich2 < %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}_hl%{sonum}-mvapich2
 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and