[Yum] Re: yum install using auto-dependency checking???

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Aug 30 21:12:24 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:41 -0700, jeff stern wrote:
> Greg Knaddison wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something here, but this makes complete sense to me
> > as it was laid out.
> > 
> > RPM (and therefore yum) don't have any idea about software installed
> > outside of their world, so they don't know of any packages that
> > provide libgds.so.  They do know what the requirements of an RPM
> > package are, so when you ask what php-interbase package requires it
> > can tell you exactly what it requires.
> 
> but this is exactly the problem. the .spec file never said that the 
> php-interbase sub-package *requires* libgds.so.. but it generated it 
> anyway as a 'requires'.. so apparently, rpm's automatic 
> dependency-checking *does* check things that are not in rpms..?

A better question is why is php-interbase requiring libgds.so when it's
provided with libgds.so.0? Does the interbase-devel package have a file
for libgds.so instead of a link?

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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