Bug 1427674

Summary:	[RFE] Weak Dependencies for RPM packages
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Pat Riehecky <riehecky>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	ffesti, misterbonnie, pmatilai
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Description Pat Riehecky 2017-02-28 20:55:43 UTC

Description of problem:
Can RPM be enhanced to support the Weak Dependency Tags:
Recomments:
Supplements:
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):rpm-4.11.3-21.el7


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to use Weak Deps tags
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Actual results:
RPM cannot build

Expected results:
RPM can build

Additional info:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WeakDependencies

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2017-03-01 04:39:31 UTC

What's the actual use-case here?

Is it just to be able to build packages (eg from Fedora) where weak dependencies have been used without modification, or something else?

Comment 3 Pat Riehecky 2017-03-01 14:39:41 UTC

My current use case is to build Fedora packages without modification, but over time I wouldn't be surprised if I started building packages with these bits in mind.

I'm also thinking a bit about forward compatibility with RHEL8.

Comment 4 Florian Festi 2017-07-13 12:21:25 UTC

We will have a look which features of rpm will be made available to keep reasonable forward compatibility with RHEL 8 and contemporary Fedora versions. But right now we are not adding weak dependencies to RHEL.