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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 13/08/12 11:44 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Iurt the rebuild bot
> <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org> wrote:
>> Name        : coreutils                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version     : 8.17                              Vendor: Mageia.Org
>> Release     : 2.mga3                        Build Date: Sat 21 Jul 2012 09:49:45 PM CEST
>> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: jonund.mageia.org
>> Group       : System/Base                   Source RPM: (none)
>> Size        : 5273984                          License: GPLv3+
>> Signature   : (none)
>> Packager    : Iurt the rebuild bot <mageia-sysadm at mageia.org>
>> URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>> Summary     : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
>> Description :
>> This package is the union of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and
>> textutils packages.
>>
>> These tools are the GNU versions of common useful and popular
>> file & text utilities which are used for:
>> - file management
>> - shell scripts
>> - modifying text file (spliting, joining, comparing, modifying, ...)
>>
>> Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix
>> counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer
>> arbitrary limits.
>>
>> colin <colin> 8.17-2.mga3:
>> + Revision: 273158
>> - Update for usrmove
> 
> This broke a few packages requiring /bin/rm or /bin/ln which are no
> longer provided by coreutils
> 
> apache-portlet-1.0-api-javadoc (from apache-portlet-1.0-api)
> esmska-javadoc (from esmska)
> mx4j
> regexp-javadoc (from regexp)
> rt
> tomcat5-admin-webapps (from tomcat5)

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?

Col


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