private-shared-object-provides

[Thomas Spura]

Am Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:31:39 +0200
schrieb Thomas Spura <tomspur at fedoraproject.org>:

> Hi list,
> 
> with a recent rpmlint, there will be a new warning
> 'private-shared-object-provides'. This will always trigger a *.so file
> inside of %{python_sitearch} as a wrong dependency:
> """
> A shared object soname provides is provided by a file in a path from
> which other packages should not directly load shared objects from.
> Such shared objects should thus not be depended on and they should not
> result in provides in the containing package.  Get rid of the provides
> if appropriate, for example by filtering it out during build.  Note
> that in some cases this may require disabling rpmbuild's internal
> dependency generator.
> """
> 
> Is there a easy way to fix the find-requires script, so this won't be
> emitted in next builds? The current workaround is to manually grep
> away the unwanted provides, but... it's a workaround.

This is now filled in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619482

With a partly "fix".

> While viewing the current find-requires script I found the file
> '/usr/lib/rpm/python.prov', which apparently doesn't exist yet.
> Is this on someone's TODO list? If not, maybe I'll have a look.

I'm working on this, I'll send another mail about this soon.

	Thomas