Bug 1319182

Summary: incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Honza Silhan <jsilhan>
Component: httpdAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:58:33 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 Joe Orton 2016-03-18 16:08:12 UTC 
SRPM:  httpd-2.4.18-2.fc24.src.rpm       RPM:  mod_ssl.x86_64    Require(pre):  /bin/cat
SRPM:  httpd-2.4.18-2.fc24.src.rpm       RPM:  mod_ssl.x86_64    Require(pre):  httpd-filesystem
SRPM:  httpd-2.4.18-2.fc24.src.rpm       RPM:  mod_ssl.x86_64    Require(pre):  openssl
SRPM:  httpd-2.4.18-2.fc24.src.rpm       RPM:  mod_ssl.x86_64    Require(pre):  hostname

Those are flagged as Requires(pre) but some are really Requires(post).

httpd is all fine, the script also misses transitive deps.  mod_ssl Requires httpd Requires httpd-filesystem, which is sufficient.  The rest is really only required for the pre/post scripts.