Bug 1319179 - 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: qemu
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-18 15:58 UTC by Honza Silhan
Modified: 2016-03-18 17:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-18 17:41:42 UTC
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 15:58:15 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 Cole Robinson 2016-03-18 17:41:42 UTC
This bug report is kinda confusing. The qemu line from the pastebin output is:

qemu-2.5.0-9.fc25.src.rpm         RPM:  qemu-common.x86_64        Require(pre):  /usr/bin/getent

However there is no 'Requires(pre)' in qemu.spec. There _is_ Requires(post): /usr/bin/getent in qemu.spec, however that's just an RPM %post dep as far as I can tell so we don't need to add a plain Requires:. So closing as NOTABUG

But was there a fedora devel or similar discussion about this for more background?


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