Re: automatic dependencies and relocatabel package

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On June 19, 2006 3:33:51 PM +0200 Andrei Kazarov  
> <Andrei Kazarov cern ch> wrote:
> >  > rpm -i --dbpath /home/akazarov/releases/testRPMinst/RPMDB
> > --prefix=/home/akazarov/releases/testRPMinst /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ 
> > i386/LCG-43a-0.i386.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         /bin/sh is needed by LCG-43a-0
> >     Suggested resolutions:
> >         bash-2.05b-41.4.i386.rpm
>
> What version of rpm provides suggested resolutions, and where does it
> get this information from?

Like rpm-4.2, been there quite awhile, I fergit.

The suggestions are from the rpmdb-vendor package, which also drops  
in the
3 macros necessary to configure suggestions and --aid.

/etc/rpm/macros.solve is the conventional name that Fedora used to use.

Here's what I am currently using, custom hackery to work around my  
machine peculierness:

#       The path to the dependency universe database. The default value
#       is the rpmdb-vendor location. The macro is usually defined in
#       /etc/rpm/macros.solve, installed with the rpmdb-vendor package.
%_solve_dbpath  /var/lib/solvedb

#       The path to the dependency universe packages. This should
#       be a path to the packages contained in the solve database.
%_solve_pkgsdir /var/cache/yum/development/packages/

#       The output binary package file name template used when  
suggesting
#       binary packages that solve a dependency. The macro is usually  
defined
#       in /etc/rpm/macros.solve, installed with the rpmdb-vendor  
package.
#
# XXX   Note: escaped %% for use in headerSprintf()
%_solve_name_fmt        %{?_solve_pkgsdir}%%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%% 
{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm

73 de Jeff