On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > 2013/8/26 Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > > > This patch fixes so that soft dependencies won't be displayed with 'rpm -q > > --requires', only with 'rpm -q --suggests' > > > > This patch can be done (by masking RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK using awk) without > changing any C code. > Feel free to provide a better solution. :)
Expecting me to address your needs if foolish. I have other tasks to do than write and test an awk script. > > I'm also very reluctant to change existing/useful behavior of --requires with > grep -v because it breaks compatibility behavior (that I rely on while > developing) > on systems with @rpm.org installed. > IIRC rpm.org hasn't implemented support for RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK on > dependencies, have they? > Ie. isn't there's some incompatibilities in place already? :o) You will need to address the issue with @rpm.org, not here. Meanwhile all the reasoning and the complete implementation was done a long time ago. Using a bit that other implementations/distros choose not to honor has nothing to do with what is implemented, nor what might need to be displayed using rpm -q. > > Well, you know better than me, at least behaviour introduced by this patch is > what's been preferred by cooker users. :) > And this isn't the place to honk you cooker warez. You submitted a patch for "upstream" inclusion, and you have my reply. 73 de Jeff > -- > Regards, > Per Øyvind
