meaning of Requires(pre)

2016-03-20 Thread Honza Šilhan
Hi, this is follow up to recent discussion we had with Harald Hoyer. Long story short there were some packagers who interpreted `Requires(pre)` tag wrongly as it is not an extended semantic of normal `Requires` but has rather different meaning [1]. In some packages rpm ancient `PreReq` dependen

Re: meaning of Requires(pre)

2016-03-19 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Honza Šilhan wrote: > The maintainers of Fedora components containing > `Requires(pre)` tag and while not having the `Requires` were informed. BTW the thing that detected the use of Requires(pre) in packages seems to have been buggy; I got (among other things) a r

Re: meaning of Requires(pre)

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 03/18/2016 01:59 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: BTW the thing that detected the use of Requires(pre) in packages seems to have been buggy; I got (among other things) a report for netmask which does not have Requires(pre) at all, it has Requires(post,preun): /sbin/install-info. I also received a fal

Re: meaning of Requires(pre)

2016-03-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday, March 18, 2016 2:10:49 PM CDT Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 03/18/2016 01:59 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > BTW the thing that detected the use of Requires(pre) in packages seems > > to have been buggy; I got (among other things) a report for netmask > > which does not have Requires(pre)