On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:04:19AM +0100, Diana Bosio wrote: > >Err, yes it does. > No, it does not, /bin/sh and /bin/bash are files written by the bash rpm, > but they are not in the provides tag, as you probably already know. Sure. But packages provide their contents. That's why --whatprovides matches, as I showed you: > >$ rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/bash > >bash-2.05b-38 [lots of other things deleted, because as I got to the end of your message, I realized that this is the crux of the issue:] > >Simple -- circular dependencies aren't bugs. > Just out of curiosity: how does rpm installs the bash rpm if it needs bash > to install rpms? Or does it need only some kind of basic shell? And in any > case how that basic shell gets installed on the system? > Can rpm install itself? "Requires" doesn't imply that it needs to be installed _first_. Have you read /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/dependencies and /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/tsort? That might clear some things up for you. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
