On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:55:23PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

Ok so we have a bunch of packages which require X, but X is already on the system, albeit without a Provide. That sounds like an obvious workaround of compiling

Name: rpmlib-missingdep Version: suse10.1 Release: 1 BuildArchitectures: noarch Provides: rpmlib(PatchRPMs) = 3.0.6-1 Summary: Provides missing dependency for SUSE 10.1 rpm 4.4.2-40

into a package and installing that.

That cannot work because the implementation of RPM does check these dependencies with a special case and not by looking them up in the RPM database. Note that even in a system that does not have the above bug these symbols are _not_ in the database. It wouldn't really make sense to check for these dependencies in the database because you can install a valid system with rpm into a special root directory without installing rpm within this special root directory itself. Who should provide the symbols in that case. Another point is that these symbols specify features that are required for _installation_ of the package and not for running the applications packaged. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."