providing what they require

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 14:13:27 UTC 2008


seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> Here is a list of pkgs and their requirement that they also provide.
> 
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-required-rawhide.txt
> 
> Now, it would be handy if rpm filtered these out automagically at build
> time, and that's something to think about. If you notice if any of your
> packages do something like this manually, please stop it.

Stop doing manual filtering of the requires? This was needed in the
past when we had multiple apps with their own xulrunner copies, to
avoid brokenness on upgrade.

Bill




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