Re: [PATCH] Fix prereq flag checking
Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009, Seth Vidal wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Currently createrepo on Fedora >= 10 flags all dependencies in the >>> generated metadata as "pre" ones. Fix attached, more info in its >>> description. >> >> What does that do on rhel5? >> >> otherwise it looks like a good idea. > > The patch should not have any bad effects with any rpm version I'm aware of. > Well, except that it'll obviously break with rpm-python versions where the > rpm.RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE or rpm.RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POST constants don't exist but > based on some source diving, that means rpm < 4.0.2. > > RHEL 5 (I checked sources up to 4.4.2.3-7.el5) is one of those distros that > have their rpm patched to the upstream rpm < 4.4 behaviour where > RPMSENSE_PREREQ is not 0. So the only thing I assume it would change on it > would be that it might start to treat Requires(pre) and Requires(post) in > addition to PreReq as "pre" dependencies in this context (unless it already > did through some other means) which I think is only a good thing. good. right. applied. thank you -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum