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Re: why does RPM 5.1.0 think some fulfilled dependencies are not fulfilled?

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Tue 15 Apr 2008 - 14:21:38 CEST
Message-ID: <20080415122138.GA61354@engelschall.com>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Apr 15, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> Here's where perl erasure was added to the transaction:
>
>> D:    upgrade erases perl-5.10.0-20080413
>
> Does perl-utils attempt a virtual Provide: for perl?

Ah, NO: It "Requires:" perl!

Find the perl-util.spec under:
http://cvs.openpkg.org/fileview?f=openpkg-src/perl-util/perl-util.spec

As you can see, it's a regular package which just dependends on "perl".

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Tue Apr 15 14:26:43 2008
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