Broken dependencies: libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_PRIVATE)

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 05/31/2011 05:31 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2011/5/30 Sergio Belkin<sebelk at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've received a message from repoclosure about UpTools package because
>> (it's in testing)  it claims that has  "unresolved deps:
>> libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_PRIVATE)"
>>
>> That's because shared libresolv.so from old glibc releases lack of
>> some symbols, eg: ns_initparse that are into static libresolv.a
>>
>> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/milter-greylist/message/5797)
>>
>>
>> Fedora package can use macro that filter requires but AFAIU epel5
>> can't do that (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Perl_Provides_and_Requires_Filtering).
>> So I don't know what to do :(
>>
>> Could you help me?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
> Well answer myself:
>
> appended:
> %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
>

I think this one is not needed. You just want to filter out some 
dependencies, not to block generation completely.

> and en %prep:
>
> cat<<  \EOF>  %{name}-req
> #!/bin/sh
> %__find_requires  $* | sed -e '/GLIBC_PRIVATE/d'
> EOF
>
> %global __find_requires %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/%{name}-req
> chmod +x %{__find_requires}
>
This should be enough.

See 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Perl_Provides_and_Requires_Filtering

Regards,
Xavier