On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 10:52, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Sunday, July 24, 2016 5:15:51 PM CDT Florian Weimer wrote:
> To implement some Fedora 25 changes (split NSS (Name Service Switch)
> subpackages, libcrypt without NSS (Mozilla Network Security Services)
> library depdencies), I added additional subpackages to the glibc
> packages, namely:
>
> - libcrypt
> - libcrypt-nss
> - nss_db
> - nss_hesiod
> - nss_nis
>
> The expectation is that libgcrypt-nss is installed by default, and
> system administrators may opt to install libcrypt (with the internal
> algorithm implementations instead). libcrypt and libcrypt-nss both
> provide the soname-based RPM dependencies required by applications which
> need password hashing.
>
> In contrast, nss_db, nss_hesiod, nss_nis are expected to be installed by
> system administrators who need the specific functionality. They are not
> installed by default. (nss_files and nss_dns remain part of the main
> glibc package because their use is pretty much required by all
> installations.)
>
> The background for these changes is twofold: We want to reduce minimal
> image size (also the gains a very small), and we want to pave the road
> towards alternative implementations (based on OpenSSL for libcrypt, and
> based on libtirpc for nss_nis).
Bodhi has zero support for Reccomends and Suggests, we can not push out
updates with them. The use of Rich dependencies is not allowed. See [1] for
more details
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedora...
From what I can see, glibc.spec doesn't contain any rich dependencies
(i.e. booleans) in Requires: or Recommends:. Do you have a specific
issue with current glibc package?
Regards,
Dominik
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