> Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> Stuff from tarballs is *never* considered by rpm (and any software >> using rpm to resolve dependencies, like yum). hmm.. well, then, on second thought, that leads me to another question.. as i said earlier, i can install the interbase drivers via rpm or via tarball. in earlier email, i responded for the case where they are installed via rpm. but if the interbase driver (libgds.so) is installed via tarball, then, when i query the php-interbase rpm package for what it requires: rpm -qp --requires php-interbase-5.0.4-10.4.i686.rpm then, if what you say is correct -- that rpm never considers any dependencies which are not in another rpm package -- then why does rpm return 'libgds.so' as one of its required dependencies, when 'libgds.so' is not from any rpm (again, this is when i have the interbase drivers installed via tarball, not from rpm)..? ----------------------------------------------------------------- # rpm -qp --requires php-interbase-5.0.4-10.4.i686.rpm config(php-interbase) = 5.0.4-10.4 grep libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) libgds.so <========= perl php = 5.0.4-10.4 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 # _ ----------------------------------------------------------------- and yet ----------------------------------------------------------------- # rpm -q --whatprovides libgds.so no package provides libgds.so # _ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ???
