Adam Williamson wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:54:48PM -0700: > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 22:46 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:39:14 -0700 > > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 20:03 +1000, Amit Saha wrote: > > > > So, this library is missing. However, this should have been > > > > installed as its a dependency, right? > > > > > > > > It can be seen that there are two providers listed for libotf.so.0. > > > > Since 'openmpi' was already installed, so it didn't bother > > > > installing 'libotf'. I could simulate the scenario on a Fedora 15 > > > > installation: > > > > > > The problem is that openmpi includes a libotf.so.0, but it's not in a > > > path that the system will usually look in for shared libraries, it's > > > in (libdir)/openmpi/lib/ . openmpi probably shouldn't have a private > > > copy of libotf in the first place (assuming that's what it is, and > > > not just a naming coincidence), but if it's going to have one, it > > > should have a line in the spec to prevent RPM auto-provides from > > > giving the openmpi package a Provides for libotf.so.0. > > > > It's certainly not the same libotf, since OpenMPI does not have > > *anything* to do with truetype fonts. > > > > Even though the library is installed in a non-system directory, > > applications that link against libotf will get an automatically > > generated Requires: against it anyways. > > Well, packages get an auto-generated Requires: for libotf.so.0. Anything > that claims to provide libotf.so.0 will satisfy this. The most correct > solution is simply for openmpi to stop claiming to provide libotf.so.0 > because, for practical purposes, it does not provide it: even if the > library in question were the same one, openmpi's copy is not in a > location that other packages will know how to use, so in practical > terms, it does not provide the library. If I run into this kind of a situation (a false auto-generated Provides), is it possible to disable just that one entry, or do I have to disable AutoProv entirely and keep track of the libs myself? Thanks, -matyas -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
