Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (332 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-07-01 08:09:23 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:21:06 John Beranek wrote:
> > This evening I created a new package "nagios" in
> > home:johnberanek:nagios3. This was an import of a package from EPEL6.
> >
> > As received from EPEL6 it builds happily on a CentOS 5 machine, but in
> > OBS with RHEL5/CentOS5 build target it fails with "unresolvable: nothing
> > provides user(nagios), group(nagios)".
> >
> > The package spec has:
> >
> > Requires: user(nagios)
> > Requires(pre): user(nagios)
> > Requires: group(nagios)
> > Requires(pre): group(nagios)
> >
> > Provides: user(nagios)
> > Provides: group(nagios)
> >
> > On the advice of darix/coolo I solved the problem with a bootstrap
> > procedure of commenting out the Requires(pre) lines, and this allows the
> > build to complete. At this point I should be possible to put the
> > Requires(pre) lines back.
> >
> > However, that bootstrap hack is hardly obvious/"nice" behaviour for OBS. ;)
> >
> > Right, that's all for now.
>
> Can you explain why you need to state that your package needs itself ?
>
> What else should OBS do in this case ?

the obs should use the provides in the same spec file to fullfil the
requires, because thats what rpm does aswell.

    darix

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