Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 22:41 schrieb jeff stern: > Greg Knaddison wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but this makes complete sense to > > me as it was laid out. > > > > RPM (and therefore yum) don't have any idea about software > > installed outside of their world, so they don't know of any > > packages that provide libgds.so. They do know what the > > requirements of an RPM package are, so when you ask what > > php-interbase package requires it can tell you exactly what it > > requires. > > but this is exactly the problem. the .spec file never said that the > php-interbase sub-package *requires* libgds.so.. but it generated it > anyway as a 'requires'.. so apparently, rpm's automatic > dependency-checking *does* check things that are not in rpms..? No, rpm checks the shared lib dependencies of binaries in the package, when it _builds_ the rpm. Pete
