Re: [Sheflug] suse source rpms

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> >     zzzz> Does SuSE come with an explanation of their own macro's?
> >     zzzz> Does SuSE support %{_bindir}, %{_mandir}, etc. use?
> >     zzzz> Is # neededforbuild a SuSE extention, and how does it differ
> from
> >     zzzz> the Prereq: line in Red Hat RPM .spec files?
> >
> > RPM is Evil.

> I checked rpm.org, and couldn't find anything... what do they need bash
> changed for?

rpm.org is outdated and unmaintained, unfortunately (I'm trying to work
on it to get it improved, though).

Red Hat has apparently chaged bash to support the option --rpm-requires.
So you'll get something like:

$ sh --rpm-requires <some_command>
<some_other_command> (<rpm_name>)
<some_other_command_2> (<rpm_name_2>)
.
etc.

e.g.

$ sh --rpm-requires gendiff
find (find-utils)
diff (diff-utils)

(output is slightly different, as I haven't upgraded yet)

Basically, it's an option to help rpm find requirements for packages.

Jules
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