[Fedora-packaging] Requires(missingok)

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 3 16:18:57 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 11:16 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:13 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
> > 
> > PM> Rpm doesn't support that either as of 4.4.2.x, but the parsing of
> > PM> Requires(foo) attributes is somewhat broken so it doesn't report
> > PM> the error as such in all cases (yes, it's a bug of course).
> > 
> > What really bothers me is that we already know what Requires(post),
> > Requires(pre) and such mean.  So going by that, Requires(hint) or
> > Requires(missingok) would indicate a dependency for the %hint or
> > %missingok scriptlets.  Which, uh, they don't.
> > 
> > I know that rpm specfile syntax isn't clean by any stretch of the
> > imagination, but I can't see the motivation for taking something which
> > actually made sense and shovelling in a load of turds for no reason.
> 
> +!
> 

or +1, even. you know, without the sticky shift key :/

-sv





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