On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:46 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> I just attempted to compose the Games spin for Fedora 10, and ran into a > >> number of packages that fail their %post scripts due to missing one > >> thing or another out of coreutils (such as ln, rm, file, etc..) and it > >> has me wondering what might have changed in recent time so that > >> coreutils wouldn't be installed earlier in the transaction. This seems > >> like something that would have been noticed before, but maybe it's just > >> in the particular package set that the games spin has. > > > > It's actually a pretty common phenomenon related to packagers thinking > > they're "always" there because they are except in the case of new > > installs. coreutils is actually surprisingly late in install order and > > so there are pretty frequent packages which pop up expecting otherwise > > (and there always have been; I've been filing bugs about them for longer > > than I like to remember :-) > > > We can look at binaries to see what libs they need, can we not look at > %post scripts and figure out if coreutils is required? Scripts (assuming not using a different interpreter) are run via bash which means that in theory you could use bash --rpm-requires. But that has a lot of holes and problems Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
