Hi!
Often you have symbolic links within one package pointing to files residing in
other packages, e.g. *-devel packages with lib*.so symlinks pointing to the
lib*.so.1.2.3 package in the base package. Currently rpm does not
automatically create dependencies for that and thus often missing dependencies
do occur when the packager forgets to specify the dependency manually.
To support automatic dependency generation for symbolic links, you just have
to
1. add the following code to /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires
In the beginning of the file:
RPM_BUILD_ROOT="$1"
At the end of the file:
if [ -x /usr/bin/readlink ]; then
for i in "${filelist[@]}"; do
if [ -h "$i" ]; then
a=$(readlink -f "$i")
echo "${a/#"$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"}"
fi
done | sort -u
fi
If you only want to support current distributions with current coreutils
you can skip the outer if command.
2. and change the line
%__find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires
in /usr/lib/rpm/macros to
%__find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires %{buildroot}
Do you think this feature is useful?
Do you have comments about the implementation?
If you think, this is a helpful feature for RPM, I'd be happy if you added
this.
For different operating systems than Linux, that don't have readlink, an
alternative implemenation might be useful.
Robert
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