> -----Original Message----- > From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Cusack > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:20 PM > To: RPM Package Manager > Subject: Re: AutoReqProv > > On May 31, 2005 4:54:36 PM -0700 Aaron Hanson <a.hanson@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All - > > > > I've got a an elf exe, 'mysql', which links to libncurses.so. > > libncurses.so links to libgpm.so. Now the mysql package > %post script > > actually invokes 'mysql', so I've added 'Requires(post): > ncurses' to > > the mysql package. > > > > This is enough to insure that ncurses is installed > before mysql, but > > not enough to insure that the gpm package (which contains > libgpm.so) > > is installed before ncurses. > > Well, that's not an rpm dependency; libgpm.so merely needs to > be installed > *with* ncurses (not necessarily before). However, since > ncurses must be installed before mysql, I would expect that > this means libgpm must also be installed before mysql. (All > the corequisites of a prerequisite should also be > prerequisites, I would think. If not, that sounds like a > bug.) The basic dependency -is- observed; in other words, I can't install mysql without also installing ncurses and gpm. But the install order isn't right. Mysql has this dependency 'Requires(post): ncurses'. To enable something in the mysql package to really use the ncurses library during the %post script, ncurses -and- gpm must be installed before mysql... > Are you sure your ncurses package has libgpm as a > dependency? Mine doesn't, but then my libncurses isn't > linked against libgpm. > > Also note that you shouldn't list ncurses as a dependency, > you should list libncurses.x.y. > > -Frank > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list >
