Re: removing some auto-generated requirements

[Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley novell com>]

I've done this before.  It's certainly not as elegant as I would
prefer. 

On Monday 18 August 2003 09:46 am, Valery Reznic wrote:
> --- Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
>
> wrote:
> > In regard to: Re: removing some auto-generated
> >
> > requirements, Bart Whiteley...:
> > >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.
> >
> > Assuming you're using a recent RPM, you can redefine
>
> You also can set AutoReq: no, run manually Auto-req
> script and remove from it output everything you don't
> like to ne requeres.
>
> Valery
>
> > what script is run to
> > automatically find the Requires info.  You could
> > have a bastardized
> > `find-requires' script that skips emitting certain
> > requires, and you could
> > point your rpmbuild to use that via a macro (I
> > forget the name, grep
> > around through /usr/lib/rpm to find it).
> >
> > You've piqued my curiousity, though.  Why do you
> > want to do this?
> >
> > Tim
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