Re: removing some auto-generated requirements

[Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley novell com>]

But I need to remove Requires, not Provides.  I tried
removing the x bits on the objects containing the requirements
that I wanted to remove.  I got a warning that the x bits weren't 
set, but it still listed the requirements. 

On Sunday 17 August 2003 04:25 am, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:19, Bart Whiteley wrote:
> > There have been a few times where I've wanted to
> > remove some of the requirements (shared libs) that
> > are auto-generated.  The only way I've found to do
> > this is to turn off auto-req-prov, and then explicitly list
> > all the requirements except the ones I don't want.
> >
> > Is there an easier way?
> >
> > It would be nice to leave auto-req-prov enabled, and
> > explicitly list "requirements" that you would like to be
> > removed from the requires list.
>
> Doing chmod a-x for the selected libraries in buildroot prevents rpm
> from finding them as Provides, then have %attr(0755, root, root, -) in
> %files to make them executable on the installed package (though I don't
> think that's strictly necessary)
>
> 	- Panu -
>
>
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