providing what they require

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 22:28:19 UTC 2008


2008/10/22 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
> Here is a list of pkgs and their requirement that they also provide.
>
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-required-rawhide.txt
>
> Now, it would be handy if rpm filtered these out automagically at build
> time, and that's something to think about. If you notice if any of your
> packages do something like this manually, please stop it.
>
>

Um, how to stop it? - most of those Provides are automatically
generated by rpm. I know there is some messy instructions on how to
filter those for perl packages in the guidelines, but it seems more
widespread than perl packages...




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