On Thu, 18.07.13 15:47, Panu Matilainen (pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >>I would suggest it, but it is not recommended by guidelines :( so I > >>suggest some (not yet) standardized virtual provide, which will be > >>more descriptive than "syslog-files" > >> > >>Vít > >> > >>[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_Dependencies > > > >I guess this comment doesn't apply if we explicitly add Provides: > >/var/log/messages to all packages that provide the file. Hmm, or maybe > >no, I don't grok RPM well enough... > > Well the guideline is really just a recommendation for optimizing > yum behavior, nothing more. But yes, an explicit "Provides: > /some/path" goes into the main repository metadata so resolving a > dependency on that path doesn't require downloading the big bad file > lists. Hmm, Panu, but who does this exactly work? If at least one package explicitly provides /some/path, and some others only implicitly provide it, is the big bad file list download skipped? Which would mean either *none* of the providers shall explicitly provide the file (which would be slow), or *all* of the provides explicitly provide the file? If some would explicitly provide it, and others only implicitly, then things would be broken? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
