On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:41:11 +0200 (CEST), Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Jeu 30 août 2007 11:34, Michael Schwendt a écrit : > > > From the perspective of Joe Packager, if you need a program/file, you > > hunt it down, "rpm -qf" or "repoquery --whatprovides" it, and add the > > found package name as a BR. > > Or you do which foo and add this BR (a lot simpler, faster and more > reliable) No, "rpm -qf $(which foo)" to be precise, since it returns only a path and not a package name. And $(which foo) has been mentioned in the mail you replied to. > > Yes, you could be pedantic and add the > > full path of the needed file instead, but that would break if a > > program were moved around in $PATH. > > This is a very unusual event (much more than package shuffling) > because the FHS nailed this a long time ago The FHS does not cover every file a packager might want to BR. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
