Strange dependencies added by rpmbuild

[Mertens, Bram]

Hi

Because I need to install CA's Siteminder web agent on a number of web
servers I want to create an rpm from the binary installer delivered by
CA.

Probably in part because I'm not familiar (yet) with how to build RPMs I
have run into a number of issues but finally I have been able to build
an RPM of both an older version and a newer version.  (I won't go into
the details as to why I need both - it's a long story.)

Anyway installing the RPM I built from the old version works fine.
However when I try to upgrade the old version to the new I get:
# rpm -Uvh webagent-6.5.12-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libodbc.so is needed by webagent-6.5.12-1
        libodbcinst.so is needed by webagent-6.5.12-1
        libverify.so(VER_1) is needed by webagent-6.5.12-1

These dependencies are also displayed in rpmbuilds output:
..
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: /bin/sh httpd libIntroscopeNativeDataAPI.so libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6 libXp.so.6 libXt.so.6 libXtst.so.6 libawt.so
libbtunicode.so libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libdl.so.2 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) libgcc_s.so.1
libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) libjava.so libjvm.so
libm.so.6 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libmlib_image.so
libnet.so libnsl.so.1 libodbc.so libodbcinst.so libpthread.so.0
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) librt.so.1 libsmcommonutil.so
libsmerrlog.so libsmeventlog.so libsmgda.so libsmvariable.so
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.5
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) libverify.so
libverify.so(VER_1)
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
/var/tmp/webagent-6.5.12-root
Wrote: /home/mertensb/redhat/SRPMS/webagent-6.5.12-1.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/mertensb/redhat/RPMS/i386/webagent-6.5.12-1.i386.rpm
..

What I find strange is that even though these files are detected as
dependencies they are nowhere to be found on the machine on which I
built the RPM.

I have tried to discover why these files would be added as dependencies
by following the steps the find-requires script takes (as described on
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-auto-depend.html).
But they are not listed (well "libverify.so" is but not
"libverify.so(VER_1)").

How can I determine whether or not these files are actually needed?  And
if they are not how can I prevent rpmbuild from including them as
dependencies?

Kind regards

Bram Mertens



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