Attn: Maintainers of things which might depend on xorg-x11-xkbdata

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 19:55 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
> > Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > > On 7/10/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> On Monday 10 July 2006 05:19, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > >> > So, for example, right now I need to add a BR for the file
> > >> > /usr/include/X11/StringDefs.h
> > >> >
> > >> > what BR: line should I use?
> > >>
> > >> Whats wrong with BR'ing the file?
> > > Well, that's just what I've done and it seems to work; adding that
> > > pushed in the correct package in both FC4 and FC5.
> > > I imagine there could be problems only if in the future the other
> > > required files (I don't think that was the only needed include file)
> > > will be found in another package.
> > > Thanks a lot
> 
> > For the specific case you've given above, buildrequiring the
> > file explicitly is definitely wrong.  If you do not already
> > know which package owns a header file, you should find the file,
> > then query rpm to find out which -devel package provides the
> > file, and depend on that package.
> 
> OK, but is there a way to find out what (virtual) stuff that RPM provides?
> That would be the most future-proof way of handling this.

$ rpm -qp --provides /path/to/rpm

Paul.