Re: rpm doesn't recognize that apache installed

["Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry athabascau ca>]

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Hi all!

This thread arises one more question: are there any plans of implementing 
something that will check fo actual presence of binaries, not packages. As a 
good example I should mention Java (precisely JDK/JRE). Both IBM's and SUN's 
(those in RPM format) do not provide any common feature even thought they are 
replaceble, so because of this I myself can't write "correct" RPM with _all_ 
the requirements because I have nothing to refer to to check for java 
presence... Isn't that weird? I've written for our purposes RPM with oracle 
libraries, but one of those require libjava.so wich is in both SUN's and 
IBM's RPMs, _but_ it's not specified in "Provides" section... As a quick hack 
I install this package with --nodeps currently, but again - it's not a 
solution. Rebuilding those RPM (JDK/JRE) sounds like dirty workaround, not a 
solution... 
Currenly rpm is flexible enought to allow that kind of things to happen but 
not flexible enought to fix them without packager support. I think nobody in 
IBM or SUN will change RPM just to satisfy my needs. They have their own 
agenda so my $0.02 have nothing to do in their business. :(

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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