requires(post) on coreutils

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 21:12:57 UTC 2008


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 :-)
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>   
> 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?
> 
conditionals mess things up in %post scripts.

-Toshio

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