On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Ram Prakash. R wrote: > Hello, > I have built my own RPM that I am downloading into a device which has a > clean RPM database. This RPM contains some self sufficient executables (they > have no external dependencies). But the spec file contains a %pre script > which creates some soft links after testing for their existence. Because of > the %pre script an automatic dependency got created for /bin/sh. > This dependency is generated even though I have > AutoReq: 0 > in the spec file. > > To overcome dependency failures, I added /bin/sh in the "Provides" clause. > But still the failure due to dependency on /bin/sh occurs. Any idea to > overcome this automatic dependency generation will be appreciated. If there's no /bin/sh on the system then what exactly creates the symlinks in your packages %pre section? You need shell of some sort, if it's not /bin/sh then tell rpm to use different interpreter for %pre, eg "%pre -p /path/to/shell-interpreter" - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
