On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:49 AM Pat Riehecky <riehe...@fnal.gov> wrote: > > I've been doing a fair bit of mapping back and forth from binary rpms to > source rpms. And I had a question: > > Would it make sense for a source rpm to have a generated 'Provides:' for > any %package defined within the spec? > > For example (actual syntax to be determined by folks smarter than myself): > > $ rpm -qp --provides man-db-2.8.4-4.fc30.src.rpm > rpmbuild(man-db) > rpmbuild(man-db-cron) > $ > > I'd expect it to 'provide' all the %packages (even ones masked for your > specific arch so that we don't deal with executing macros at query and > whatnot). > > Thoughts? >
It'd probably be better if we had an equivalent to debbuild's --showpkgs switch that parsed the spec file and identified what packages would be built from it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Rpm-ecosystem mailing list Rpm-ecosystem@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-ecosystem
