OpenMPI, Emacs and libotf problems

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jul 6 20:26:57 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 15:24 -0500, Mátyás Selmeci wrote:

> > Well, packages get an auto-generated Requires: for libotf.so.0. Anything
> > that claims to provide libotf.so.0 will satisfy this. The most correct
> > solution is simply for openmpi to stop claiming to provide libotf.so.0
> > because, for practical purposes, it does not provide it: even if the
> > library in question were the same one, openmpi's copy is not in a
> > location that other packages will know how to use, so in practical
> > terms, it does not provide the library.
> 
> If I run into this kind of a situation (a false auto-generated
> Provides), is it possible to disable just that one entry, or do I have
> to disable AutoProv entirely and keep track of the libs myself?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoReqProv_%28draft%
29#Removing_items_from_the_provides_stream_.28post-scan_filtering.29
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