Greetings. I am the maintainer of a popular preprocessor known as gpp, which has been around for several years now. The package was previously offered only as source, but I recently created an RPM. A problem I am running up against is that it seems that gpp was also the name of another, now-obsolete program from the GNU compiler package. GNU gpp has been superseded by the GNU gcc-c++ RPM. The problem is that the rpm program (and associated programs such as apt4rpm) do not distinguish between my gpp and GNU's gpp, so I end up with dependency errors such as the following when my gpp is installed: [root@port-3108:/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386]# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: gcc-c++: Obsoletes: gpp E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Is there anything I can do to avoid or circumvent this problem? Renaming my program is not a very good option, as countless gpp have already written shell scripts and makefiles which invoke gpp. Is there some change I can make to my spec file, or some change I can recommend users make to their rpm or apt4rpm configuration files? If anyone needs to see my spec file, it's available in the gpp source RPM at <http://www.nothingisreal.com/gpp/>. Regards, Tristan -- _ _V.-o Tristan Miller [en,(fr,de,ia)] >< Space is limited / |`-' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= <> In a haiku, so it's hard (7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
