[Fedora-packaging] Questions about dependencies in rpm packages
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 01:27:19 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 23:58 +0100, Olivier Bourdon wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been using this wonderfull Fedora distro since FC2 and I am
> currently using FC8 migrating soon to
> FC10 as soon as it becomes official at the end of the month
>
> One thing just started puzzling me is when I look at the list of
> dependencies of say BackupPC
> 5 /bin/sh
>
> why are some of these duplicated ?
>
> I can guess from the src.rpm file for initscripts that this comes from
> the lines:
> Requires(preun): initscripts, chkconfig
> Requires(post): initscripts, chkconfig, %{_sbindir}/usermod
> Requires(postun): initscripts
>
> but what about /bin/sh ??
/bin/sh is the default interpreter for the script sections of the
package, therefore it gets added once per script.
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>
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