Bug 1319120 - incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Summary: incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: basesystem
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-18 15:53 UTC by Honza Silhan
Modified: 2016-07-26 12:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-07-26 12:20:44 UTC
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:53:16 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 Ondrej Vasik 2016-04-28 07:00:54 UTC
I believe this Requires(pre) is black magic relict - to ensure correct order of the package dependencies in resolver - you need all of them anyway. Actually nothing requires basesystem for runtime, so it is possible this package can be eventually dropped, if the new generation of resolvers resolve the package order in better way.

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:53:02 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.


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