On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:16 +0000, Martin Craig wrote: > Hi, > > I get an apparent circular dependency when I use %config(noreplace) to > mark configuration files. There is a matching dependency in the > 'provides' and 'requires' lists for the RPM, of the form: > > config(mymodule) = mymodule_version > > Looking around this seems to be common in many rpms so I'm assuming it's > not a problem. Could somebody confirm this for me, also what is the > reason for this use of provides/requires? There isn't an issue as you already noted it's self-fulfilling within the package. It's provided automagically, as are rpmlib requires, etc. IIRC one possible future thing that this would ease is to have config subpackages split out automagically to enable package managed local config packages. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
