Bug 1319141

Summary:	incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Honza Silhan <jsilhan>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	glibc team <glibc-bugzilla>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	arjun.is, codonell, dj, fweimer, jakub, law, mfabian, pfrankli, siddhesh
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:55:07 UTC

We've identified your package for having `Requires(pre)` RPM flag without `Requires` [1]. `Requires(pre)` rpm tag could be interpreted wrongly, so to prevent any harm to Fedora users I am notifying you about this fact.

Any package that is specified in `Requires(pre)` could be freely removed. Citing from RPM pages:
```
If there are no other dependencies on the package providing /usr/sbin/useradd, that package is permitted to be removed from the system after installation(!)
``` [2]

If you really rely on dependency just during the installation process and your package don't necessary require the dependency for the proper run of your application then ignore this bug report and close it as NOTABUG. Otherwise add to your spec file additional `Requires` for the dependency, please.


[1] paste.fedoraproject.org/341611/82208431
[2] http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MoreOnDependencies

Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:08:49 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 2 Carlos O'Donell 2016-07-26 13:11:43 UTC

Florian,

Could you have a look at this when you get a chance? We recently removed the Requires (pre) on libgcc, but the others should be checked.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 09:56:08 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 4 Carlos O'Donell 2017-02-28 13:16:18 UTC

The Requires(pre) we have are transient requirements that can be removed after installation. The Requires(pre): basesystem is the only one I think we could drop because it's guaranteed never to be removed.