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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 01:58:16 UTC 2007


Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> There's a 1.1.6-5 pending which has this file marked as %ghost (as a hack to 
> make the transition from hardcoded symlinks to alternatives working smoothly). 
> Are %ghosted files considered "provided" by RPM?

You can also do:

Provides: /path/to/file

for things provided by alternatives.

Bill




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