dummy Provides was: rpmbuild

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:

>   *IS* there any way to tell rpmbuild how to use something 
> that was built from source, and *not* either installed via 
> rpm, or built via rpmbuild? (In case you're wondering, php 
> 5, and now I'm trying to build the php-java-bridge.)

A package doing nothing except enumerating 'Provides' does 
this -- see, eg,

ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/dummy-xscreensaver/dummy-xscreensaver.spec

which was written to convince a installer that the 
'xscreensaver' dependency was met for a thin client 
installation, where idle units were sucking up cycles 
needlessly