On 10/08/2014 12:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > This F21 change: > http://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/RPM-4.12 > > has brought us 'weak dependencies', namely: > > Recommends, Suggests, Supplements and Enhances > > Rpm in f21 and rawhide sees these in spec files and builds fine with > them. createrepo in those branches also exports this into the metadata. > > yum however doesn't do anything with that information. > dnf does (although it's not clear to me what exactly it does do, so > input from dnf maintainers would be great). > > There's 4 packages that are already using these weak deps, but our > default package manager (yum) doesn't understand them. People > installing via yum and installing via dnf will see different behavior. > > I filed a fesco ticket to ask that we ask maintainers to please not add > these until we have guidelines and our default package manager supports > this information: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1353 > > FESCo asked me to post here and see what folks think. > > Should we just ask folks not to use these for now (honor system). > > Should we add a check to redhat-rpm-macros to check packages and fail > the build if they use these tags (for now). I don't think we should allow these in Fedora until expectations are agreed upon and the tooling works. Whether we enforce it with a check or honor, I don't have a strong opinion. I'd like to think an honor system would work. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
