Re: Making Suggestions for dependency resolution

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Michael Dengler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> How do I make a suggestion when an rpm dependency is not met?
>
> ie:
>
> My spec file for mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm:
>
> Requires: somepackage
>
> I'd like rpm to suggest a full package name for somepackage when the user
> tries to install the mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm
>
> eg:
>
> rpm -ivh mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>       somepackage is needed by mypackage-1.0-1.i386
> suggestion:
>       somepackage-0.9-1.i386.rpm
>
> I thought I'd seen this behaviour before when installing rpms but can't seem
> to find any info on it.

For rpm to suggest dependency resolutions you'll need to have a "solve 
database" available, for example on RHL, early FC and RHEL <= 4 this is 
called rpmdb-redhat, newer releases don't have that anymore.

	- Panu -