From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041216 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-6 Description of problem: All packages built with rpm-4.4 and up do not mark prereqs as prereqs. This can result in wrong loop breakup in dependency loops, because it is not visible if the removal of a relation will break pre scripts. An example for this is module-init-tools, which has a prereq for coreutils. Both packages are in a dependency loop. If the dependency for coreutils will be removed from module-init-tools to breakup this loop, this will lead in an install error and maybe more problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.4.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compare rpms from fc3 and fc4 (example: module-init-tools) 2. 3. Actual Results: No prereqs Additional info:
Created attachment 112529 [details] This patch fixes the prereqs: Going back to old RPMSENSE_PREREQ value.
Fixed in rawhide in rpm rpm-4.4.1-9 or newer.
Given that jbj has repeatedly asserted that prereqs are ignored, I wonder if this change is appropriate.