On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 00:41 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:28:19 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > > 2008/10/22 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Here is a list of pkgs and their requirement that they also provide. > > > > > > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-required-rawhide.txt > > > > > > Now, it would be handy if rpm filtered these out automagically at build > > > time, and that's something to think about. If you notice if any of your > > > packages do something like this manually, please stop it. > > > > > > > > > > Um, how to stop it? - most of those Provides are automatically > > generated by rpm. I know there is some messy instructions on how to > > filter those for perl packages in the guidelines, but it seems more > > widespread than perl packages... > > Don't misunderstand Seth's list. The Provides are necessary and must not > be stripped, because external packages may require them. The Requires > in a pkg could be stripped if it's the same pkg that Provides the > needed things. > > The "thunderbird" pkg contains a "find-external-requires" script which > does the thing that's proposed here. It ought to be rpmbuild, though, > that does this for all pkgs. Yes - if the pkg provides something it requires then the requires can be removed. A simple addition to the rpmbuild process to remove these items from the requires wouldn't hurt. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
