On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:41 -0700, jeff stern wrote: > 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..? A better question is why is php-interbase requiring libgds.so when it's provided with libgds.so.0? Does the interbase-devel package have a file for libgds.so instead of a link? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050830/6b099acd/attachment.bin
