On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:20:45AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > hmmm ... ok, i stand corrected. but then i'm curious as to why the > list of deps of the "initscripts" package would include both: > /bin/sh > bash >= 2.0 In this case, the /bin/sh was probably autogenerated by RPM's dependency detector, whereas the "bash >= 2.0" was added explicitly in the RPM header to guarantee a version equal or greater than 2.0 (something that's harder to autodetect). > i'm going to think on this some more, but i'm still curious as to how > one would add an extra file like /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver to the > system, if you want to maintain strict rpm purity. are you seriously > suggesting that one create an rpm whose sole purpose it is to install > a single config file? that's kind of the impression i'm getting here. There's kinda an exception for files in /etc -- many files there aren't RPM managed. But certainly to add a file under /usr [*] I would. [*] other than /usr/local -- 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
