On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:30:16PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
Hi,
What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ?
For example, on Fedora 20:
rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm
shows:
(contains no files)
It pulls in the various dependant packages that are required for a
"full" libvirt install. Previously all the code was in that one
package but people wanted the ability to install individual pieces.
So those pieces were split off into sub-RPMs, but we still wanted
to keep a way to install everything as other people were already
used to doing and thus avoid breaking existing dependancies.
Daniel
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