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

[David Walser]

Colin Guthrie 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?

Since the UsrMove, I've seen Fedora add explicit Provides: /bin/{foo} things to some packages, presumably because of this same problem.