On 08/11/2011 01:19 PM, David Howells wrote:
I have a package (keyutils) that produces three RPMs: keyutils (programs), keyutils-libs and keyutils-devel. The programs in the keyutils RPM depend on the libraries in the keyutils-libs RPM and pick up implicit dependencies thus:
warthog>rpm -qRp keyutils-1.5.1-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm ... config(keyutils) = 1.5.1-1.fc14 ... libkeyutils.so.1()(64bit) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_0.3)(64bit) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_1.0)(64bit) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_1.3)(64bit) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_1.4)(64bit) ...
So does the keyutils rpm need an explicit Requires on the keyutils-libs rpm in the specfile or is the implicit library dependency sufficient?
Library requirements should be implicit unless there's a good reason otherwise; see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
rpmlint does not complain, but, for RHEL, rpmdiff does.
What is the rpmdiff "complaint"?
Paul.