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Bug 466580

Summary:	RHEL's emacs, emacs-nox packages should provide emacs(bin)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Michel Lind <michel>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Karel Klíč <kklic>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	omoris, ovasik, rvokal, vbenes
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	emacs-21.4-21.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the emacs and emacs-nox packages did not provide any convenient way for other packages to specify a dependency that can be satisfied by either of the emacs variants. This update changes the emacs and emacs-nox packages and provides the common symbol "emacs(bin)".	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-04-27 10:11:31 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	463019, 463020

Description Michel Lind 2008-10-10 23:50:31 UTC

Description of problem:
RHEL's emacs and emacs-nox packages do not provide emacs(bin). This means that packages containing emacs modes that are not GUI-specific currently have no way to specify that they want *any* emacs, short of depending on /usr/bin/emacs. And file-based dependencies are frowned upon.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
21.4-20.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -q --provides emacs
  
Actual results:
emacs = 21.4-20.el5

Expected results:
Should also provide emacs(bin)

Additional info:
Same change should probably be made to xemacs, but I don't personally use it. For this kind of minimal change, hopefully we don't have to wait for the next service release?

Comment 6 Eva Kopalova 2011-04-20 16:08:28 UTC

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    New Contents:
Previously, the emacs and emacs-nox packages did not provide any convenient way for other packages to specify a dependency that can be satisfied by either of the emacs variants. This update changes the emacs and emacs-nox packages and provides the common symbol "emacs(bin)".

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-27 10:11:31 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0468.html