On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:52:37AM -0700, Steve G wrote: > > > > > For example, /sbin/grub-install. The grub package states bash & > > > texinfo. I get coreutils, diffutils, grep, and sed just for that one > > > file! It would be nice if rpmbuild scanned for shell scripts, > > > capture the info, resolve the files to a package, and add the > > > packages to the runtime requirements. Its really simple. > > > http://www.web-insights.net/sh2rpms if you want the bash script. > > > > We patch our bash package to have an --rpm-requires option to provide > > just this functionality (but it isn't used). > > Nice, I didn't know this was there. What would the implications of running > this as a per interpreter find-requires at build time on shell scripts? It's nice but only as an aid to a packager, it has too many problems to be usable in automated manner. For example try it on the little script below... Dunno how hard it would be to fix. --- #!/bin/sh dostuff() { echo "stuff..." } $grep="grep" echo `ls` $grep /etc/modules.conf alias && $echo dostuff --- - Panu -
