Re: rpm fails depedency even when they're met

On Jan 7, 2008 4:40 PM, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 13:39 -0800, Isabelle Poueriet wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I try to install package X that depends on shared lib Y.so.s1.
> > Y.so.1 is on /usr/lib/ and it is supplied by a non-rpm package.
> >
> > What can I do so that rpm does not fail depedency of Y.so.1 for
> > Package X?
> >
> > Thanks much in advance!
> >
> >
>
> have the package installed by rpm. rpm doesn't look at the local
> filesystem for what is or is not there. It only looks at the rpm
> database. If the file isn't installed by rpm then rpm won't be able to
> know about it.
>

Actually rpm-5.0 has a runtime probe dependency to solve exactly
this type of problem of mixing package and unpackaged libraries:

    Requires: soname(/path/to/library) = Y.so.s1

if you want a solution in packaging.

There are several other means to supply sonames-not-from-packages
to rpmlib as well, including
    mkdir -p /etc/rpm/sysinfo
    echo "Y.so.s1" >> /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Providename

hth

73 de Jeff

73 de Jeff

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