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Who maintains RPM?

Who maintains RPM?

Posted Aug 23, 2006 11:44 UTC (Wed) by n3npq (guest, #40075)
In reply to: Who maintains RPM? by skvidal
Parent article: Who maintains RPM?

Not true.

The mechanism for soft dependencies in rpm sets a RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK bit which has
pre-defined semantics that the dependency is provided to depsolvers who are free
to do whatever they wish with the dependency including ignoring the dependency
entirely as rpmlib does.

So ignore
Enhances: glibc
in yum if you wish.

Or even better, fix the package that contains a bogus dependency.


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Who maintains RPM?

Posted Sep 4, 2006 4:40 UTC (Mon) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

> Or even better, fix the package that contains a bogus dependency.

That's a lot easier done in Debian, where the project controls all 17,000 packages, then in Fedora, where unofficial repositories contain a large fraction of the packages in common use.


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