More fun with SONAME Provides

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:54:58 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Second run, trying to eliminate some harmless positives automatically...
> > 
> > Trouble ahead:
> > 
> > lam-libs provides libmpi.so.0
> >   required by: ScientificPython - 2.6-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: R-RScaLAPACK - 0.5.1-9.fc7.i386
> >   required by: blacs - 1.1-24.fc7.1.i386
> >   required by: lam - 2:7.1.2-10.fc7.i386
> >   required by: lam-devel - 2:7.1.2-10.fc7.i386
> >   required by: openmpi - 1.1-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: openmpi-devel - 1.1-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: openmpi-libs - 1.1-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: scalapack - 1.7.5-1.fc7.i386
> >   required by: tachyon-lam - 0.97-4.fc7.i386
> >   required by: tachyon-lam-gl - 0.97-4.fc7.i386
> > openmpi-libs provides libmpi.so.0
> >   required by: ScientificPython - 2.6-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: R-RScaLAPACK - 0.5.1-9.fc7.i386
> >   required by: blacs - 1.1-24.fc7.1.i386
> >   required by: lam - 2:7.1.2-10.fc7.i386
> >   required by: lam-devel - 2:7.1.2-10.fc7.i386
> >   required by: lam-libs - 2:7.1.2-10.fc7.i386
> >   required by: openmpi - 1.1-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: openmpi-devel - 1.1-8.fc7.i386
> >   required by: scalapack - 1.7.5-1.fc7.i386
> >   required by: tachyon-lam - 0.97-4.fc7.i386
> >   required by: tachyon-lam-gl - 0.97-4.fc7.i386
> > 
> > Both packages store libmpi.so.0 in a private path, /usr/lib/lam/ and
> > /usr/lib/openmpi/ respectively. Still there are other packages which
> > require libmpi.so.0  => there are bad dependencies here.
> 
> Can you explain what are bad dependencies here?

No, because both packages install ld.so conf via %post scriptlets and the
alternatives system. That is not something a first version of a
checker-script would detect. ;)