[Fedora-packaging] Missing 'Provides:' from rpmdeps, apparently?

Hi all It's been a while (a couple of years) since I packaged an RPM, and a few things appear to have changed. In particular one thing that has got me completely stuck is the automatic dependency tracking, in particular the 'Provides' tagging doesn't seem to work as expected. I have a package that installs a shared library in /usr/lib64/libfreesteam.so.1, and I want that package to automatically be tagged with "Provides: libfreesteam.so.1()(64bit)" however nothing I do seems to cause the automatic dependency tracking to create that tag. If I install my package, and run the following, I get the expected output: [john@fed17-64 ~]$ rpm -ql freesteam | /bin/sh -c " while read FILE; do /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps -P ${FILE}; done | /bin/sort -u " libfreesteam.so.1()(64bit) But for some reason, while in principle the same thing is being done during the package build, the resulting libfreesteam.so.1()(64bit) Provides tag does not get generated: [john@fed17-64 freesteam]$ rpm -p /home/john/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/freesteam-2.1-0.f17.x86_64.rpm -q --provides freesteam = 2.1-0.f17 freesteam(x86-64) = 2.1-0.f17 [john@fed17-64 freesteam]$ rpm -p /home/john/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/freesteam-devel-2.1-0.f17.x86_64.rpm -q --requires freesteam = 2.1-0.f17 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 libfreesteam.so.1()(64bit) /usr/bin/env rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 This of course has the result that my 'devel' package doesn't install because it has a dependency on libfreesteam.so.1()(64bit) that it doesn't know how to satisfy. Can anyone set me straight on what is going on here? (One thing that I notice is that shared libraries in Ubuntu use 644 mode, but Fedora 17 uses 755. But I believe I've corrected for that using %defattr. Also I am getting automatically-generated dependencies on /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env that I am surprised by) Cheers JP If you want to check out my code, it's here: http://sourceforge.net/p/freesteam/code/ I use: sudo yum install gsl-devel scons swig python-devel scons dist rpmbuild -ta dist/freesteam-2.1.tar.bz2