On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Martin Langhoff > > > <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> But you can add: > > > >> > > > >> Provides: /bin/foo > > > > > > > > Ugh! Will that be needed that across the distro for a release or two? > > > > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=09220fef36dcc2fe06bd858578119872f889c7e2 > > > > That should not be needed. > > 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. Good to see everyone still doesn't read what I write. As I said, rpm _does something_ to make the above work for -qf (the above even works if you inside /cow ... as long as the /bin symlink exists!). However, it _does not_ work, if you put the above in package provides/requires and try to install them. Eg. http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/sym1.spec http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/sym2.spec ...you _cannot_ install these packages, even via. local only rpm. Also, even if someone could fix rpm to work this out, making this work at the yum layer is _much_ harder ... because the repodata does not currently specify that /path/to/blah is a regular file or a symlink (and if it's a symlink, what it points to). So the coreutils provides _are needed_ (along with all others), or the coreutils package has to "lie" and say it is installing the packages into a dir. /bin. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
