Broken dependencies in Fedora 7 + Test Updates - 2007-09-24

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:20:58PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 23:14:20 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Whatever script is producing this report is broken, since /usr/bin/mkisofs
> > definitely exists on F7, and I could install perl-Test-AutoBuild without
> > any dependancy problems on F7
> 
> Nevertheless, imho it would be better to require /usr/bin/genisoimage instead 
> of mkisofs, because mkisofs is only a compat symlink.

No, because the application explicitly invokves 'mkisofs' and not 
'genisoimage'. If you put a dependancy on '/usr/bin/genisoimage' and
the mkisofs symlink goes away, then the app stops working.

Dan.
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