On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 16:35 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I saw a review ticket for a package which uses Requires(missingok):
which I have not seen before. Some searching turned up the kismet and
python-docutils which currently use this idiom.
What is this actually supposed to do? I can understand what
Requires(hint) might do, but Requires(missingok) sounds more like it
wouldn't actually do anything if the dependency is not present, which
would make me wonder as to the point of having it at all.
Do we want Requires(missingok) in Fedora packages?
no - at least for yum it is not supported.
Rpm doesn't support that either as of 4.4.2.x, but the parsing of
Requires(foo) attributes is somewhat broken so it doesn't report the error
as such in all cases (yes, it's a bug of course).
Requires(missingok) means just as much to rpm 4.4.2.x as
Requires(arbitraryjunk)
- Panu -
--
Fedora-packaging mailing list
Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
