Disable RPM's autoprovide function
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Wed Nov 28 10:41:11 UTC 2007
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:07:45 +0000, Ian Chapman wrote:
> Stewart Adam wrote:
>
> > libGL.so.1 is automatically
> > provided because of the scripts that RPM runs at the end of a build - Is
> > there some way to override this or disable it so that libGL.so.1 is only
> > provided by mesa-libGL?
>
> There's some examples here for filtering dependencies, albeit for perl,
> it may be possible to adapt it or figure out something similar for sonames
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl
>
> There's also
>
> AutoReqProv: no
>
> which can be used to disable automatic dependency processing entirely
> but obviously any necessary dependencies would need to be specified
> manually. This is the 'sledgehammer to crack a nut approach' I guess.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FilteringAutomaticDependencies
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