Re: Package Build Report - Fedora Extras Development

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:09 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Urgh, in other words, SONAME provides have become meaningless and
> > useless, i.e. rpm on x86-64 is severely borked :(
> 
> No, because the soname provides/requires are auto-generated -- if you
> ever manually put
>   Requires: libfoo.so.1
> in a spec file, then you are doing something wrong.

What? It is prohibited to use autogenerated virtual provides in
rpm.specs?

Show me the piece of documentation where
a) the semantics of *.so.xx provides/requires is documented
b) it is documented that using autogenerated virtual provides in
manually written dependencies is prohibited.

Ralf