[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release coreutils-8.17-2.mga3

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 13 August 2012 13:17, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, indeed. How are these things "Provided" anyway? I mean they are not
>> in the list of the --provides, so how is this resolved? Does rpm have a
>> special mode for detecting these kind of provides? If so how does it
>> resolve it with urpmi?
>
> Unless something changed, files dependencies are resolved at
> hdlist-generation time as soon as another package requires them.

Only part of them (see media/media_info/file-deps)

> For instance, the following line in RT spec file will make genhdlist map
> /bin/rm to coreutils in the hdlist.cz:
> Requires(postun): /bin/rm
>
> I don't know how this work at rpm level, tough, in order to make 'rpm -Uvh
> rt-4.0.6-1.mga3.noarch" work without urpmi support. Probably checking in the
> list of files available in the target rpm.