dnf and file provides

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 24 01:55:07 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 18:19 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Got this is a resent koji rawhide build:
> 
> DEBUG util.py:393:  No matching package to install: '/bin/csh'
> 
> I'm assuming this is a quirk of dnf now being the default, but needs
> to 
> get fixed.

There is no /bin/csh in the package, only /usr/bin/csh . /bin is a
symlink to /usr/bin , so you can call /bin/csh and it'll work, but
/bin/csh does not exist in the package. Thus it does not provide it.
Requires should always use /usr/bin or /usr/sbin .
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