On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Tom Maddox wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how RPM determines what files are provided by a > package. I'm in a position where I need to upgrade a particular package > that provides a couple of shared libraries. The new version provides > newer versions of the libraries, and I want to add a couple of symlinks > in the package that will act as the old versions of the libraries for > backwards compatibility with all my other existing packages. > Unfortunately, when I try to install the package, RPM spits out a huge > list of dependencies that will be broken, and I can't figure out how to > get the package to say that it actually does provide the libraries in > question. > Provides: libblah.so.1.2 might work. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
