Re: dependency resolution ?

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:25, Alex Kramarov wrote:
> i thought packages should require only capabilities provided by other
> packages, not other package's files ! am i incorrect ? if i am, what other
> parts of packages redhat except "provides" and "files" packages can depend
> on ?

RPMS can depend on three things:
1) Package names.  Sometimes RPM puts these in --provides, sometimes not
2) Package "Tokens", which the things that --provides lists
3) Packaged files.

Unfortunately this makes writing dependency resolvers interesting.  If
you are truly interested in writing a dependency resolver, then you
might want to look at the RCWorld stuff in libredcarpet, available from
cvs.gnome.org.

Thanks.
Peter