requires(post) on coreutils

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Thu Nov 20 18:46:31 UTC 2008


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>   
>> I just attempted to compose the Games spin for Fedora 10, and ran into a
>> number of packages that fail their %post scripts due to missing one
>> thing or another out of coreutils (such as ln, rm, file, etc..) and it
>> has me wondering what might have changed in recent time so that
>> coreutils wouldn't be installed earlier in the transaction.  This seems
>> like something that would have been noticed before, but maybe it's just
>> in the particular package set that the games spin has.
>>     
>
> It's actually a pretty common phenomenon related to packagers thinking
> they're "always" there because they are except in the case of new
> installs.  coreutils is actually surprisingly late in install order and
> so there are pretty frequent packages which pop up expecting otherwise
> (and there always have been; I've been filing bugs about them for longer
> than I like to remember :-)
>
> Jeremy
>
>   
We can look at binaries to see what libs they need, can we not look at 
%post scripts and figure out if coreutils is required?

--CjD




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