Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects
/etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside:
"Providename",
"Requirename",
"Conflictname",
"Obsoletename",
"Dirnames",
"Filelinktos"
(Taken from rpm/lib/rpmds.c)
In PLD we still provide it as a file which limits its use (the
fallback treats everything in the file as Providename).
After doing:
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{,.old}
mkdir /etc/rpm/sysinfo
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{.old,/Filelinktos}
We can do useful stuff like:
echo "foo >= 0.2" >> /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename
to pin a certain package a'la Gentoo's world package. Both sysadmins
and poldek could benefit from this feature (poldek would need a helper
binary called via sudo to alter the contents but it uses sudo for rpm
anyway).
Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format.
--
Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution
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