requires(post) on coreutils

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:46 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> >> I just attempted to compose the Games spin for Fedora 10, and ran into a
>> >> number of packages that fail their %post scripts due to missing one
>> >> thing or another out of coreutils (such as ln, rm, file, etc..) and it
>> >> has me wondering what might have changed in recent time so that
>> >> coreutils wouldn't be installed earlier in the transaction.  This seems
>> >> like something that would have been noticed before, but maybe it's just
>> >> in the particular package set that the games spin has.
>> >
>> > It's actually a pretty common phenomenon related to packagers thinking
>> > they're "always" there because they are except in the case of new
>> > installs.  coreutils is actually surprisingly late in install order and
>> > so there are pretty frequent packages which pop up expecting otherwise
>> > (and there always have been; I've been filing bugs about them for longer
>> > than I like to remember :-)
>> >
>> We can look at binaries to see what libs they need, can we not look at
>> %post scripts and figure out if coreutils is required?
>
> Scripts (assuming not using a different interpreter) are run via bash
> which means that in theory you could use bash --rpm-requires.  But that
> has a lot of holes and problems

This may only be in rpm5, but if you use full paths to the programs
(/bin/rm, etc.), aren't the dependencies resolved by rpm?

--
Dan