Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:13:32 +0200 Till Maas <opensource till name> wrote:And what insane spec files produce dangling symlinks?A large amount of -devel packages have .so symlinks that are dangling within the -devel package itself. However rpm is smart enough to figure out where that link is pointing to and add a hard requires to that file.
Speaking of which, handling library paths better would be nice. Right now if you say "provides: libxpcom.so" you'll satisfy dependencies for things, whether that library is in the linker path or not.
Kindof complicated to get right, unfortunately. -- Peter