Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-11-24

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:42:47 +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> On Sunday 26 November 2006 01:08, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > Everybody is free to write code that creates different reports and
> > different statistics.
> 
> Is there any documentation about this?

Nothing beyond code in "fedora" cvs:
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/?root=fedora
 
> Another improvement for the broken dependencies and any other reports is a 
> header with an URL to the wiki where the report is described, e.g. I do not 
> really know how to interpret the broken dependencies reports and how one can 
> fix this if ones packages show up there.

If you query your binary rpm like

  rpm --query --requires --package foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm

you get a list of what things your package depends on (library SONAMEs,
other packages' names, interpreter programs, e.g.). If anything of that is
not provided by any package in the repository, the report lists what is
missing:

    blender-2.42a-5.fc7.i386  requires  libgettextlib-0.15.so

means "blender" is broken because no package provides the needed
"libgettextlib-0.15.so".