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

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 13/08/2012 13:02, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> '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?
Unless something changed, files dependencies are resolved at 
hdlist-generation time as soon as another package requires them.

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.

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