Bug 13561
| Summary: | rpm doesn't cope with symlinks for prereqs | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Cameron Simpson <cs> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-07-07 07:31:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Rpm manages packages, not files. Basically, that means that you would have to create a package containing the /usr/bin/perl symlink for rpm to correctly identify the symlink. Meanwhile, here's how to satisfy the dependency without creating a package echo 'Provides: /usr/bin/perl" >> /etc/rpmrc Note that this functionality will be removed in some future release of rpm in favor of building a package. |
Installing afterstep and some other rpms, it complained that is needed /usr/bin/perl. On our systems, this is a symlink to a nonredhat perl install. The links is present, with that name, but it appears that rpm does not consider that ok. I feel it should be doing a stat() rather than an lstat() for that check. Example complaint, with ls -ld of perl underneath: [home/cameron]#tiomkin*> rpm -Uv 4home/AfterStep-* error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by AfterStep-1.8.0-1 /usr/bin/perl is needed by AfterStep-APPS-20000124-6 [home/cameron]#tiomkin*4> ls -ld /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 31 11:31 /usr/bin/perl -> /opt/perl/bin/perl [home/cameron]#tiomkin*> ls -ldL /usr/bin/perl -rwxrwxr-x 2 cameron cameron 734315 Apr 20 17:33 /usr/bin/perl