So.. I'd recommend finding another package that does the same symlinking bit and see how they do it. That being said, and without having the resources to verify it at the moment, I'd imagine if you hard add the 'Provides libexample.so' you would solve your problem. Since RPM isn't grabbing that as a dependency unless its actually the file, I'd imagine thats what the other packages are doing as well. If i get a chance to look and see different I'll correct myself (or someone else can for me :) -greg On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Shivashis Saha <ssaha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am having a strange problem while creating a RPM. I posting the question > on StackOverflow > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12809889/rpm-missing-dependency) > but got no answers. If you can please help, that will great. Thanks a lot > for your time. > > My question (same as that in StackOverflow): > > I am creating a RPM which has the following shared objects: > > libexample.so --> libexample.so.1.0.1 > libexample.so.1.0.1 > > When I am creating the RPM using rpmbuild, I see the rpm provides > libexample.so.1.0.1. But, in the require section I see libexample.so > > In the makefile of the project I refer libexample.so > > When I am trying to install the rpm it gives an error "Missing dependency: > libexample.so" even though it is packaged as a link file pointing to > libexample.so.1.0.1 > > So the problem is somehow RPM is not considering that I am packaging > libexample.so (which is a link to libexample.so.1.0.1) > > However, I installed the rpm using --nodeps option and everything is working > fine. > > So, my question is how should I modify to avoid getting the error of missing > dependency. > > To validate that the missing dependency is due to the link file, I changed > libexample.so from a link file to an actual shared object (cp > libexample.so.1.0.1 libexample.so) and rpm does not giving the missing > dependency error. > > Can someone please help and tell me what I am missing and how to fix this > missing dependency error in RPM. Thanks a lot in advance for your help and > time. > > -- > Thanks, > Shivashis > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
