On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:03 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > > > To be precise: > > > > > > [root@nostromo ~]# mv /bin /cow > > > [root@nostromo ~]# /cow/ln -s /cow /bin > > > [root@nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /cow/bash > > > bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64 > > > [root@nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /bin/bash > > > bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64 > > > > > > rpm should already handle this, no need for the provides. > > > > Elsewhere in this thread it was pointed out that yum doesn't handle it > > the same way. > > When calculating local on-system provides, it should - in fact, I'd be > surprised if it doesn't. Admins sometimes move directories around and > replace them with symlinks. > > Is the statement that it won't take it into account for an initial install > transaction? Perhaps it'd be nice for someone to be sure about this? The competing uncertain 'I think it's sort of like this' assertions are making me nervous. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
