Bug 107853
| Summary: | --redhatprovides and --redhatrequires do not work | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski> |
| Component: | rpmdb-redhat | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | chris.ricker, leonard-rh-bugzilla |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-11-05 15:09:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 100643 | ||
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Description
Gene Czarcinski
2003-10-23 19:48:20 UTC
This is mostly a duplicate of: Bug #106843 Bug #106844 Now that the rpmdb-fedora package installs working db's, this works [kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ rpm -q --redhatrequires xpdf xfig-3.2.4-2 [kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ This is still not working for mee ... rpmdb-fedora-0.95-0.20031027 when I do rpm -q --redhatrequires xpdf I get: no package requires xpdf [done on an everything install system] I believe you may be using a different rpm package than that available in rawhide (4.2.1-0.30). I believe the /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.2.1 file still needs to be changed to point to the fedora directory rather than redhat (or make redhat a sym-link to fedora). If I do: rpm -q --define "_dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/fedora/" --whatrequires xpdf Then I get: xfig-3.2.4-2 The --redhat{provides,requires} options work just
like they always did.
What you are really asking for is --fedora{provides,requires}
added to rpmpopt. rpm cannot carry vendor specific options
as default for all possible vendors.
Either config your own --fedora* options in /etc/popt or ~/.popt
(copy, say, --redhatprovides entry from /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-*,
and do s/redhat/fedora/g), or live with the replacement
for --redhatprovides, the Suggests: output that is displayed
for all installs that fail because of missing dependencies.
"rpmdb-fedora" needs to be added to bugzilla.
I am reopening this problem and reassigning it to rpmdb since it appears to be
more of a problem with rpmdb-fedora rather than rpm.
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.2.1 have definitions of the form:
rpm alias --redhatprovides -q --define '_dbpath
/usr/lib/rpmdb/%{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_os}/redhat' --whatprovides
and
rpm alias --redhatrequires -q --define '_dbpath
/usr/lib/rpmdb/%{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_os}/redhat' --whatrequires
You will note that the directory "redhat" is hard coded. When the
redhat->fedora change was made, rpmdb-fedora not has the directory name of "fedora".
My suggested resolution is to create a symlink of the form:
ln -s ../i386-redhat-linux-fedora/ redhat
Symlinks won't work, rpm cannot replace a directory with
a symlink.
%{_vendor} could be used in path, but then --redharprovides
is misnamed. The intent was to hardwire the vendor name
in both the option and the path.
I will retire both --redhatprovides and --redhatrequires with
description in rpm.8 man page of how to configure in /etc/popt
if you wnat/need the functionality.
Deferred until somewhen ...
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