rpmdb-fedora

[Gene C.]

This is not a show stopper but should be addressed.

I am putting this on the mailing list instead of in bugzilla because I seem to 
be unable to describe the problem well enough.  I am hoping someone can 
"clarify" what I am trying to say.

The problem is described in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107853

and concerns the working of --redhatprovides and --redhatrequires options.

In the process of converting from Red Hat Linux to Fedora Core, "redhat" has 
been replaced by "fedora" in many (not all) cases -- e.g., 
"/etc/fedora-release" instead of "/etc/redhat-release".  One of the things 
changed was the renaming of the "rpmdb-redhat" package to "rpmdb-fedora" and 
of putting the information into the "/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/fedora" 
directory instead of the "/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat" directory.

[BTW, the package name rpmdb-fedora needs to be added to bugzilla.]

No this would be fine except that the macro definition file 
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.2.1 (owned by rpm) still have the following 
definitions:

rpm alias --redhatprovides -q --define '_dbpath 
/usr/lib/rpmdb/%{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_os}/redhat' --whatprovides

and

rpm alias --redhatrequires -q --define '_dbpath 
/usr/lib/rpmdb/%{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_os}/redhat' --whatrequires

and results that things just do not work.  The problem is that the final name 
is still "redhat" but the data has been placed under "fedora"

if you do:
rpm --redhatrequires xpdf
you get:
no package requires xpdf

On the other hand, if you do:

rpm -q --define "_dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/fedora/" \ 
--whatrequires xpdf

you get:
xfig-3.2.4-2

Yes, I can create a private alias definition for --fedorarequires, but that 
does not seem to make sense to me.  What do the rest of you think?
--
Gene