Fedora Extras vs. CLOSED RAWHIDE

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 3 21:54:12 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:52:37AM -0700, Steve G wrote:

> For example, /sbin/grub-install. The grub package states bash &
> texinfo. I get coreutils, diffutils, grep, and sed just for that one
> file! It would be nice if rpmbuild scanned for shell scripts,
> capture the info, resolve the files to a package, and add the
> packages to the runtime requirements. Its really simple.
> http://www.web-insights.net/sh2rpms if you want the bash script.

We patch our bash package to have an --rpm-requires option to provide
just this functionality (but it isn't used).

Tim.
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