On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> the following:
> > Of course, you were right. I didn't have that file. A search on Google found it
> > in the mozilla mail RPM which I hadn't installed. I wonder why there wasno
> > dependency problem in the mozilla or galeon RPM installations.
>
> It seems like the person who made the RPM installations didn't do a very good
> job.The person who creates an RPM has to be sure to determine all the
> dependencies of the package. Detecting the dependencies of a simple ELF
> executable is as easy as running "ldd" on the executable.
[snip]
Actually this is such a simple job that it has been automated. I believe
Have a look at /usr/lib/rpm/find-{provides|requires} . Those are being run
automatically on RPM creation time to extract the long lists of libraries
provided/required by the package.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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