[Yum-devel] [UG]: urlgrabber RPMs depends on /usr/local/bin/python

[Michael Stenner]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:58:15PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:39 -0500, Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> > # rpm -Uvh  
> > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/download/urlgrabber-2.9.5 
> > -1.noarch.rpm
> > Retrieving  
> > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/download/urlgrabber-2.9.5 
> > -1.noarch.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >          /usr/local/bin/python is needed by urlgrabber-2.9.5-1.noarch
> > 
> > I'm not sure how the depends gets configured. Michael/Seth?

> auto-generated. It probably means michael has a /usr/local/bin/python
> symlink on the system he built the noarch rpm on.

Yeah, I'm a dumbass.  My path contains /usr/local/bin/ before
/usr/bin/.  I'm tempted to not even provide rpms, actually.  It's SO
easy to build them from the tarball, and it causes more trouble than
it's worth to provide them for all the systems.

					-Michael

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