Description of problem: The tcp_wrappers package shipped in RHEL is still monolithic. In contrast to the one shipped in RHEL6 or to the one shipped in recent Fedora versions, where it has been splitted in three - tcp_wrappers, tcp_wrappers-libs, tcp_wrappers-devel. The current monolithic package is making life harder for packagers, in particular the EPEL ones, by not providing tcp_wrappers-devel. To overcome this problem packagers have been using conditional code like %if 0%{?rhel} BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers %else BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel %endif or even worse, now that we have to support RHEL6 (and several Fedora versions): %if 0%{?rhel} %if 0%{?rhel} <= 5 BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers %endif %if 0%{?rhel} >= 6 BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel %endif %endif This problem could be alleviated if RHEL5 tcp_wrappers started also providing tcp_wrappers-devel. Provides: tcp_wrappers-devel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7 Expected results: To have the tcp_wrappers RPM also provide tcp_wrappers-devel Additional info: Possible patch: ---------- $ diff -u tcp_wrappers.spec.rhel5 tcp_wrappers.spec --- tcp_wrappers.spec.rhel5 2009-03-10 13:58:49.000000000 +0000 +++ tcp_wrappers.spec 2011-05-17 20:03:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ BuildPreReq: glibc-devel >= 2.2 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root +Provides: tcp_wrappers-devel + %description The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, FTP, telnet, ----------
Can you contact RH support please?