Bug 1319140 - 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: nss
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Daiki Ueno
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-18 15:55 UTC by Honza Silhan
Modified: 2017-09-08 08:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-09-08 08:39:03 UTC
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:55:01 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 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:16:07 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-08-15 15:53:33 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Daiki Ueno 2017-09-08 08:39:03 UTC
Neither of the links cannot be accessed any more, and I don't see any occurrence of "Requires(pre)" in nss.spec.  Perhaps it was meant for "Requires(post): coreutils, sed" added in bug 576071?

I think it is still necessary, because, even though coreutils and sed are on critpath, nss is also on it and those prerequisites could be missing at installation time.

So I am closing this as NOTABUG.


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