On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:05 AM Karel Zak <k...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:49:34PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > After removal[0] of other ancient Provides from coreutils, it is time[1] > to > > remove next legacy part, /bin/* Provides. > > Do you plan do the same cleanup for another packages? :) > > For example util-linux: > > grep 'Provides: /' util-linux.spec > Provides: /bin/dmesg > Provides: /bin/kill > Provides: /bin/more > Provides: /bin/mount > Provides: /bin/umount > Provides: /sbin/blkid > Provides: /sbin/blockdev > Provides: /sbin/findfs > Provides: /sbin/fsck > Provides: /sbin/nologin > > coreutils needs special care because it provides two subpackages -- coreutils and coreutils-single -- which are identical in behavior but differ in Provides... and conflict with one another.
coreutils-single is often used in container images and other ultra-minimal deployments because it has a slightly smaller disk footprint (IIRC), whereas coreutils is slightly faster. The problem we keep hitting is that some packages had Requires: on Provides: only offered by the coreutils package (and not by -single), which meant that trying to install that software on those minimal images would hit DNF conflicts and would need --allowerasing to succeed. This effort is about unifying (and modernizing) their Provides:
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