Re: provides in ~/.rpmrc ? 3.0.6 vs. 4.4.6

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> Back with rpm v. 3.0.6 I could specify things like "provides:
> /bin/bash" in my ~/.rpmrc and this was really helpful when using
> rpm on Solaris. rpm on Solaris doesn't have any of the standard
> OS info in its database, and I would keep track of things that
> Solaris provided in ~/.rpmrc on an as needed basis.  Of course I
> could be using --nodeps but that seems a bit extreme for cases
> where some BuildRequires or other Requires really was referring
> to something I had packaged.
>
> Now that I've upgraded to rpm 4.4.6 "provides: <something>" in
> ~/.rpmrc is no longer valid.  I've gone through the CHANGES file
> and the manual pages, but I can't find anything that indicates
> where this functionality moved to, or even if it still exists.

Man, rpm-3.0.6 is a blast from the past.

The new location to "spoof" system provides is
	/etc/rpm/sysinfo
same format as
	rpm -q --requires popt
output, i.e. dependencies one per-line (file paths like "/bin/sh"  
permitted too).

Note that it is now possible to express versions and ranges, not just  
existence, with
"spoofed" system Provides:.

And expect the path /etc/rpm/sysinfo to change in rpm-4.4.8, when I  
wire up the
ability to express not only Provides:, but also Requires:,  
Conflicts:, Obsoletes: and
perhaps triggers, all attached as per-transaction, not per-package,  
dependencies.

Not quite there yet ...

73 de Jeff