On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:10 AM Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's that time of year again... as our RPM change proposals passed with > flying colors in yesterdays meeting, I'll hope to land RPM 4.16 alpha in > rawhide later today or tomorrow by latest. > Since Panu left it out of his announcement, I'd also like to mention that RPM 4.16 adds the following new feature: "Add support for meta dependencies (eg Requires(meta): somepkg) that do not affect install/erase ordering (RhBug:1648721)" These dependencies are intended for use with metapackages and help with avoiding dependency loops. Essentially, a `Requires(meta):` dependency is telling RPM: at the end of any transaction where this package is installed, this dependency must also be installed, but I don't need the dependency ordered earlier. This is going to come in handy for the Fedora Release packages (like fedora-release-server) which will be able to define a minimal "API" to be recognized as that Edition (or Spin). This didn't work before this feature was added, because fedora-release must be ordered early in the transaction to set up things like /etc/os-release, so we couldn't set dependencies. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
