Re: rpmbuild: disable find-provides function

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

Eric Berggren wrote:

> It seems one cannot disable or redefine the function that automatically
> builds the "provides" list in a new RPM. Appears to be built into
> librpmbuild now and never even calls /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides (or
> .perl) anymore.
>
> Basically, shared libraries private to a package are being listed as
> available by the resulting RPM, causing problems for dependancies of
> other packages and having this RPM being installed inappropriately by
> Anaconda.
>
> Have tried the traditional approach of having:
>
>   %define __find_provides         %{nil}
>
> or
>
>   %define __find_provides         /bin/true
>
> in the spec file, but this isn't working in RHEL3/4. RPM still comes up
> listing every .so file.
>
> How can one disable this function and just list the items from the
> "Provides:" tag ?
>  
Add "Autoprov: 0" to your spec file.  There is an equivalent "Autoreq: 
0" for auto-requires.

/Brian/