Re: Getting rid of implicit Requires:

["Jeff Johnson" <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

rpm has always had problems with variant #! syntax.

In this case, the interpreter dependency is written as

    Requires: /usr/bin/env

rather than as a run-time probe

    Requires: executable(python)

which will be satisfied if "python" is an executable

found on PATH, just like /usr/bin/env behavior.

(Note: executable(...) is added in rpm-4.4.3 or later).

Since run-time probes in rpm are controversial, it will likely be

a few more years before the functionality is reliably

deployed.

Your best bet in the interim is patching all the scripts to have

    #!/usr/bin/python

Annoying, but patching will lead to more reliable packaging.

73 de Jeff

On 9/18/07, Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei knapstad gmail com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm packaging some python scripts into an RPM. The first line of each
script has:

#!/usr/bin/env python

It seems like rpmbuild is adding this as an implicit requirement. My
problem is that if I build this on a box with python 2.3, the package
ends up requiring /usr/bin/python2.3. How can I get rid of this
implicitly added package requirement?

Regards,
--
Tarjei Knapstad

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