Re: Alternate package names?

[Mirko Zeibig <mirko-lists zeibig net>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0400, Myroslava Dzikovska wrote:
Hello Myroslava,

[... SuSE RPMs being incompatible ...]
well, you see one of my favourite complaints about SuSE here, they just
repackage every thing under a different name and make it impossible to use
at least Source-RPMs of other distributions.

> Is there a way to get around this? I would like to be able to tell RPM that 
> the set of names in fact refers to the same package. Or to change the name and 
> dependencies in the package I am installing to what I need. I have not been 
> able to figure out how to do it easily. I have been making my own rpms by 
> re-compiling the tar.gz files, but that is extra trouble and takes away much 
> of the convenience from the whole rpm system.
a lot of (if not most) packages are available as Source-RPM as well, which:
- makes rebuilding very easy, rpm(build) --rebuild foo.src.rpm
- and never the less gives you the comfort of the rpm-database.

If you are sure about having everything you need, you might follow one of
the suggestions a few days ago about packages only Providing dependancies
with installing any files.

Best Regards
Mirko