Explicit requires vs. auto library requires, and fc3/devel versioning
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Sun Mar 20 20:39:37 UTC 2005
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:34:32 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> > On 3/20/05 8:51 AM, "Ville Skyttä" <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >>apt-get will follow such deps just fine. If some depsolver doesn't, the
> >>depsolver needs to be fixed, not worked around in packages.
> >>
> >
> > Strange, perhaps that user isn't pointing apt-get to look at core packages
> > as well as extras packages - that would explain the error.
> >
>
> Or maybe the user is using a broken apt repository. Conectiva thinks
> file dependencies are bad, so by default they aren't included in the
> apt-rpm metadata unless you use the --bloat flag with genbasedir. With
> --bloat during metadata creation apt client works fine.
librecode.so.0 is _not_ a file dependency. It is a SONAME dependency
determined and created by rpmbuild and has worked fine in Apt-Rpm for
ages.
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