I have looked a bit at the provides in Core, and after a bit of creative repoquery use, came up with the list of duplicate provides below. A bunch of them is intentional, like smtpdaemon, webclient or php_database. The bulk of it is due to non-library DSOs and is probably relatively harmless. Some of them may be real errors, like libmpi.so.0, perl(Class::Struct::Tie_ISA). So it looks like things are in relatively good shape in Core. I haven't completed the same analysis for Core+Extras. A couple of questions come out of this excercise: 1) Why does rpm keep all those non-library DSOs as provides ? Thats blowing up the list of provides significantly, causing a lot of duplicates, and is unlikely to ever be used for ever satisfying a requires, unless it is in error (e.g. see libsvg.so in the list) 2) Is rpm smart enough to disambiguate provides based on the full path, or is a provides for libsvg.so that lives in /usr/lib/compiz/libsvg.so going to be used to satisfy a requires for a shared library with the same name ? I guess this will rarely be a problem, since the shared library requirement will be against something like libsvg.so.4. Matthias Finally, the list: postgresql-contrib: autoinc.so postgresql-test: autoinc.so mod_perl: Base64.so perl: Base64.so samba: cap.so zsh: cap.so aqbanking: csv.so.0 gwenhywfar: csv.so.0 python: datetime.so zsh: datetime.so xen: fsimage.so xen-libs: fsimage.so mailman: hangul.so scim-hangul: hangul.so rhpl: iconv.so ruby-libs: iconv.so scim-bridge-gtk: im-scim-bridge.so scim-bridge-qt: im-scim-bridge.so gnu-crypto-sasl-jdk1.4: java-sasl java-1.4.2-gcj-compat: java-sasl java-1.4.2-gcj-compat: jaxp_parser_impl xerces-j2: jaxp_parser_impl mkinitrd: libbdevid.so.6.0.6 nash: libbdevid.so.6.0.6 lam-libs: libmpi.so.0 openmpi-libs: libmpi.so.0 compiz: libsvg.so librsvg2: libsvg.so perl-DBD-MySQL: mysql.so php-mysql: mysql.so ccid: pcsc-ifd-handler ifd-egate: pcsc-ifd-handler automake15: perl(Class::Struct::Tie_ISA) perl: perl(Class::Struct::Tie_ISA) perl-Carp-Clan: perl(DB) perl: perl(DB) gaim: perl.so xchat: perl.so python: pyexpat.so PyXML: pyexpat.so python: readline.so ruby-libs: readline.so postgresql-contrib: refint.so postgresql-test: refint.so perl-PDL: RNG.so python-numeric: RNG.so postfix: smtpdaemon sendmail: smtpdaemon mod_perl: Socket.so perl: Socket.so perl-Crypt-SSLeay: SSLeay.so perl-Net-SSLeay: SSLeay.so perl-PDL: Storable.so perl: Storable.so python: syslog.so ruby-libs: syslog.so postfix: /usr/bin/mailq sendmail: /usr/bin/mailq postfix: /usr/bin/newaliases sendmail: /usr/bin/newaliases postfix: /usr/bin/rmail sendmail: /usr/bin/rmail postfix: /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail mod_perl: Util.so perl: Util.so ImageMagick: xc.so xen: xc.so php-mysql: php_database php-odbc: php_database php-pgsql: php_database selinux-policy-mls: selinux-policy-base selinux-policy-strict: selinux-policy-base selinux-policy-targeted: selinux-policy-base gnome-python2-bonobo: ui.so gnome-python2-gnomeprint: ui.so gnome-python2: ui.so ruby-libs: socket.so scim-libs: socket.so scim: socket.so zsh: socket.so elinks: webclient firefox: webclient lynx: webclient w3m: webclient wget: webclient -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
