On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:08 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Here is a list of pkgs and their requirement that they also provide.
> >
> >
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-required-rawhide.txt
> >
> > Now, it would be handy if rpm filtered these out automagically at build
> > time, and that's something to think about. If you notice if any of your
> > packages do something like this manually, please stop it.
> >
> >
> > here's the script I used to generate the output:
> >
> >
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/provides-what-they-require.py
> >
>
> My brain no work. This means that they require themselves to
> build/install? Or something else?
>
These pkgs have a requirement against something that they, themselves
provide.
So the requirement is unnecessary.
Ummm. This is going to be any package that installs a shared library, and
some binary that's linked against the shared library. That pretty much
includes everything.
If this needs to be fixed, in should be fixed in rpmbuild.