On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 This may only be in rpm5, but if you use full paths to the programs (/bin/rm, etc.), aren't the dependencies resolved by rpm? -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
