FC-4 Extras buildsystem breakage details
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Feb 23 07:05:46 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:30 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at iki.fi) said:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:09 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >
> > > I could see an argument for checking to make
> > > sure that a new extras package does not provide duplicate provides as
> > > packages in the standard build environment.
> >
> > I don't think there's a need for such a special case. Packages simply
> > must not provide things they don't really intend to "export".
>
> However, attempting to filter provides by turning off RPM's
> internal generator and using scripts removes multilib tagging
> and similar features.
...which is an example of why a better way to do it, like the
NoProvides: tag as suggested by Chris in this thread and others
elsewhere (eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/126878), is needed.
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