On Apr 5, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffrey Lau wrote: > >> >> Same procedure, just .../etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename for stubbing >> out a requires dependency.
This should have been s/Requirename/Providename/ to stub out a Requires:. For completeness, one can add dependency assertions for any of these tags in %{_etcrpm|/sysinfo: "Providename", "Requirename", "Conflictname", "Obsoletename", "Dirnames", "Filelinktos", The typical usage is to avoid package problems with the rules Every file "requires" its parent directory. Every symlink requires its end-point. instantiated in Dirnames and Filelinktos resp, or for satisfying a Requires: Note that there usage cases for the other tags (but obscure): E.g. this line in Requirename more-or-less does what one expects: diskspace(/tmp) > 10Mb 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG http://openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org