Bill Nottingham (notting(a)redhat.com) said:
Miloslav Trmač (mitr(a)volny.cz) said:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But you can add:
> >>
> >> Provides: /bin/foo
> >
> > Ugh! Will that be needed that across the distro for a release or two?
>
>
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=0922...
That should not be needed.
To be precise:
[root@nostromo ~]# mv /bin /cow
[root@nostromo ~]# /cow/ln -s /cow /bin
[root@nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /cow/bash
bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64
[root@nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /bin/bash
bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64
rpm should already handle this, no need for the provides.
Bill