On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:12:35PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:19:12PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > dkms added the dependency Requires: lsb which, on Red Hat and
> > Fedora distributions, pulls in redhat-lsb, which pulls in an amazing
> > amount of packages (a bunch of X libraries, hence cairo, mesa, and
> > pango; lpr commands, hence cups, ...).
>
> Not a real solution, but as a workaround I've kludged this kind of thing
> by rolling my own "fake" rpm that only has a bunch of "provides".
>
> i've attached a slightly-sanitized version of the spec file I use.
>
> danno
well, that's one way to do it...
I'm thinking there's a better way. We could do something like:
function distribution ()
{
if [ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ]; then /usr/bin/lsb_release
else /usr/bin/lsb_release
fi
}
and simply package our own private copy of lsb_release. We use the
system copy if present, otherwise our own copy.
--
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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