odd file-requires in f7 packages

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Thu May 17 19:30:25 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:03 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:49 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> >> and I generated this list:
> >> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/what-requires-crazy-files.txt
> > 
> > The Eclipse ones are due to multilib and the inability to Require:
> > nvr.arch.
> 
> But they all seem to be (essentially) eclipse-$foo.%{arch} requires 
> eclipse.%{arch}.  Couldn't we do something like:
> 
> %package
> Provides: eclipse(%{arch})
> ...
> %package -n eclipse-$foo
> Requires: eclipse(%{arch})

Maybe.  I'm going on vacation tomorrow so I won't have time to look at
this, but Ben Konrath may.  Eclipse bugs go to him right now so I'm sure
he'll comment if something's filed.

Andrew
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