providing what they require

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Oct 22 23:29:01 UTC 2008


seth vidal writes:

> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:08 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > here's the script I used to generate the output:
>> >
>> > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-they-require.py
>> >
>> 
>> My brain no work. This means that they require themselves to
>> build/install? Or something else?
>> 
> 
> These pkgs have a requirement against something that they, themselves
> provide.
> 
> So the requirement is unnecessary.

Ummm. This is going to be any package that installs a shared library, and 
some binary that's linked against the shared library. That pretty much 
includes everything.

If this needs to be fixed, in should be fixed in rpmbuild.


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