[Fedora-packaging] Explicit Requires

[Sergio Belkin]

2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:02:33PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> 2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
>> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:10:31PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> >> Hi Fedora people!,
>> >>
>> >> I have been reading
>> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires.
>> >>
>> >> It says that we should avoid explicit requires...
>> >>
>> >> I want to make sure that I understood it. Is an "explicit requires" is both:
>> >>
>> >> 1) A full package: eg: mysql-libs
>> >> 2) A versioned library file:libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
>> >>
>> >> So, the right way should be:
>> >>
>> >> Requires: libmysqlclient.so
>> >>
>> >> Please fix me if I misunderstood that.
>> >>
>> > No.  Listing a library in a Requires: tag at all is an explicit requires.
>> > ie:
>> > Requires: libmysqlclient.so
>> >
>> > is also not allowed.
>> >
>> > RPM is generally good about discovering what libraries a program needs to
>> > run.  So it will find that your program needs libmysqlclient.so.16 and
>> > create a Requires on it automatically.  You do not need to list it in your
>> > package if this is the case.
>> >
>> > -Toshio
>> >
>>
>> Thanks Toshio, can we say that explicit == added by hand ==
>> non-automagical  ;-) ?
>>
> That would be accurate.  I've added a sentence to the Guideline:
>
> """
> Explicit Requires are Requires added manually by the packager in the spec
> file.
> """
>
> Hope that helps,
> Toshio
>
> --

Great! Thanks Toshio.



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