Mike A. Harris <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gianluca Sforna wrote: > > On 7/10/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Monday 10 July 2006 05:19, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > >> > So, for example, right now I need to add a BR for the file > >> > /usr/include/X11/StringDefs.h > >> > > >> > what BR: line should I use? > >> > >> Whats wrong with BR'ing the file? > > Well, that's just what I've done and it seems to work; adding that > > pushed in the correct package in both FC4 and FC5. > > I imagine there could be problems only if in the future the other > > required files (I don't think that was the only needed include file) > > will be found in another package. > > Thanks a lot > For the specific case you've given above, buildrequiring the > file explicitly is definitely wrong. If you do not already > know which package owns a header file, you should find the file, > then query rpm to find out which -devel package provides the > file, and depend on that package. OK, but is there a way to find out what (virtual) stuff that RPM provides? That would be the most future-proof way of handling this. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
