Re: automatic dependencies and relocatabel package

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Jun 19, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Andrei Kazarov wrote:

> Thanks Mats!
> I've simply added  "Provides: /bin/sh" to my package.
>
> In fact I would be happy to have required version of bash installed  
> in my private RPM area, but relocatable bash RPM requires non- 
> relocatable glibc and others, so I gave up ...
> It seems there is no way to 'merge' 2 or more RPM databases (e.g.  
> the system one and a private one) ?

Sure you can merge:
   1) Find all the *.rpm names by querying one rpmdb.
    2) Execute rpm -ivh --justdb *.rpm to merge headers into the  
other database.

The issue is not lack of merging, but definied semantics to look in  
multiple databases under all possible
conditions to provide a consistent and useful view of installed  
packages.

73 de Jeff