Re: dependency resolution ?

Oh, and in a standard redhat 7.3, there are about 250,000 of them.
There are only a few thousand of each of the others.

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:25, Alex Kramarov wrote:
> hi.
> 
> working on dependency resolution , i have stumbled on sume obscure (or me)
> error, and i was hoping that someone could shed some light here ...
> 
> one of the packages i tried to install required the "/bin/aumix-minimal" :
> 
> [root@rene up2date]# rpm -qp
> /mnt/RedHat/redhat-7.3/control-center-1.4.0.1-31.i386.rpm --requires
> /bin/aumix-minimal
> xscreensaver
> [snipped]
> 
> i go and run
> 
> [root@mail cgi-bin]# rpm -q /bin/aumix-minimal --whatprovides --dbpath
> /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat
> aumix-2.7-8
> 
> i say , strange, i created a full "provides" list of the entire
> distribution. probably missed something. let's check that package out :
> 
> [root@mail cgi-bin]# rpm -q aumix --provides --dbpath
> /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat
> aumix = 2.7-8
> 
> nothing. let's see it's files :
> 
> [root@mail cgi-bin]# rpm -ql aumix --dbpath
> /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat
> /bin/aumix-minimal
> /usr/bin/aumix
> /usr/share/aumix
> /usr/share/aumix/ansi
> /usr/share/aumix/aumix.xpm
> /usr/share/aumix/fadein.set
> /usr/share/aumix/fadeout.set
> /usr/share/aumix/vt100
> /usr/share/aumix/xterm
> /usr/share/doc/aumix-2.7
> /usr/share/doc/aumix-2.7/ChangeLog
> /usr/share/doc/aumix-2.7/NEWS
> /usr/share/doc/aumix-2.7/README
> /usr/share/doc/aumix-2.7/TODO
> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/aumix.mo
> /usr/share/man/man1/aumix.1.gz
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> thank you.
> 
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