Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 22 June 2007 13:04:22 Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:09:39 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > Reviewers ought to examine "Provides" carefully and require packagers
> > > to filter the Provides if necessary.
> >
> > How should I filter these, short of AutoReqProv: 0 ?
>
> No, that would disable too much.
>
>
> One recipe:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FilteringAutomaticDependencie
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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FilteringAutomaticDependencie
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> Another recipe uses a patch against /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-provides
> (the packager needs to create the patch and run "sed" in the right
> place to drop sonames):
>
> %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> cp -a /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-provides %{_tmppath}/find-provides.%{name}
> patch %{_tmppath}/find-provides.%{name} %{PATCH0}
> %define __find_provides %{_tmppath}/find-provides.%{name}

The question I have is why can't we teach the provides finder to be smarter 
about things that are outside the standard path?  Why fix this in N* packages 
instead of the source?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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