Bug 1319150

Summary:	incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Honza Silhan <jsilhan>
Component:	fedora-release	Assignee:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dennis, jdisnard, kevin, pbrobinson, sgallagh, zbyszek
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:55:56 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 Dennis Gilmore 2016-03-18 16:24:09 UTC

do not use paste.fedoraproject.org  links in buzilla, they are short lived. the bugs are forever. fedora-release also does not have a Require(pre) in it. Please be sure to make less noise. there is two Requires(post) 

rpm -qp fedora-release-server-25-0.6.noarch.rpm --verbose --requires 
manual: cockpit-bridge
manual: cockpit-networkmanager
manual: cockpit-shell
manual: cockpit-storaged
manual: cockpit-ws
config: config(fedora-release-server) = 25-0.6
manual: fedora-release = 25-0.6
manual: openssh-server
manual: rolekit
rpmlib: rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) <= 4.2.2-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
post: sed
manual: systemd
post: systemd

Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-03-18 16:25:30 UTC

Actually sed was not used. I removed "Requires(post): sed".