Adam Stokes wrote:
I'll look into this virtual provides and see if it meets my needs.
Either the rpm macros will pick it up or they don't.
Example -
[root@jerusalem CentOS]# rpm -qp --provides
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
_sqlite.so()(64bit)
python-sqlite = 1.1.7-1.2.1
The python-sqlite package provides _sqlite.so() - for packages that use
it, they may pick up that it requires _sqlite.so() automatically, so
specifying
Requires: python-sqlite
would be redundant.
However, I'm assume this is something that would pop up
regularly
especially in languages such as python which tends to shift their
modules around every release : (