Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:44 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 20:41 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 20:25 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > >> error: Failed dependencies:
> > >>  	rpmlib(FileCaps) <= 4.6.1-1 is needed by ...
> > >
> > > Except nothing really watches those rpmlib() deps much at all, does it?
> > 
> > Rpm itself does, so unless you use --nodeps (or the API equivalent of 
> > that) it'll get caught before transaction starts.
> 
> but after you've downloaded everything. And what provides those things
> these days?

They're internally provided by rpm as they always have been.  And the
only place they can reasonably be checked is within rpmlib as is done
now.  Yeah, it means you download things and then get told "too bad!"
but there's really not a good way around that unless we were to
replicate all of the checks in yum

Jeremy