Re: Add extra generated RPM requires - how?

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 03:54:53PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
>  On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:26 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > For libguestfs [RHBZ#547496] I want to add some extra 'Requires'
>  > dependencies by running a shell script over a particular file that
>  > gets generated during the build.
>  > 
>  > What's the best way, or a way, to do this?
>  
>  It's... not easy.  You want to overload the %__find_provides macro to
>  invoke your script as well as the standard script for things like
>  library sonames.  If you get it working let me know, I want basically
>  the same thing for the X server and have so far been defeated. 
I once created this for ghc/haskell packages, but I believe it was never
used. I got inspired by a pythondeps.sh script.
The "trick" here is to run the rpm default dependency script from within
the new script. My attempt is available here:

http://till.fedorapeople.org/ghcdeps.sh

Regards
Till