2008/10/22 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > Uh, yeah, I typo'd Provides - I meant Requires, of course. > 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. Yeah. So should we bother munging spec files for this if it's going to be fixed in rpmbuild anyway? I guess not. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
