[lug] source rpm dependencies

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Thu Mar 15 19:46:45 MST 2001


Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> Yeah I was havin' my usual fun poking at RPM, but that was my original thought
> too... something's wrong with the dependencies in the SRPM file.  Fix it and
> send a patch upstream to whoever created the SRPM.  :-)

Unfortunately, I don't know who packaged it, nor do I have enough rpm
knowledget to patch it.

> 
> Quoting Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:43:06PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > >This is where I love dpkg.  "bash - provides sh".
> > >Go Debian!  :-) hahaha...
> >
> > As if RPM doesn't have that...  It would seem that the SRPM that's being
> > built is broken (at least from a RedHat standpoint).  Is there some sort
> > of pre-req in the .spec file that is asking for /bin/sh?  What is the
> > result of "rpm -qf /bin/sh" on that machine?
> >
> > I rebuild nearly everything from SRPM, and really haven't seen this
> > problem,
> > except when somone had the wrong pre-reqs in the .spec file.  Install
> > the
> > SRPM, then look in it's spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> >
> > Sean
> > --
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> > mean
> >  it's useless.  -- T. Edison
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