rpmspec provides not showing package itself

[Alfred Landrum]

wow, thanks!  I'll grab the sources and try it out.


On 10/6/11 1:04 AM, "Panu Matilainen" <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:

>On 10/06/2011 03:38 AM, Alfred Landrum wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on a system to build rpms from many potential srpms and spec
>> files, so the rpmspec utility looks like it should be very useful to
>> calculate build dependencies. However, I find it curious that it doesn't
>> report a 'provides' entry for the package itself:
>>
>> [alfred at alfred-f15 ~]$ rpmspec --version
>> RPM version 4.9.1.1
>>
>>
>> [alfred at alfred-f15 ~]$ rpmspec -q --provides --srpm work/specs/m4.spec
>> [alfred at alfred-f15 ~]$
>>
>>
>> If built, the rpm reports itself as a provided capability:
>>
>> [alfred at main-sh270:/work/alfred]$ rpm -qp --provides
>> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/m4-1.4.13-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
>> m4 = 1.4.13-5.el6
>> m4(x86-64) = 1.4.13-5.el6
>>
>> I realize I can use the --queryformat option to build out the envr
>>string,
>> but just thought it surprising that that wasn't part of the listed
>> provides.  Plus, I'm trying to use some of the innards of yum, and not
>> having the provide string is tripping that up.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers/advice; I'm new to working with rpm.
>
>Right, many things (including the implicit self-provides) are added to
>the headers late in the process of building, not while parsing. In some
>cases there's a reason for it, but I don't see why the self-provides
>couldn't be added during parsing. Thanks for pointing out the issue,
>fixed upstream now:
>
>[pmatilai at localhost rpm]$ ./rpmspec -q --provides ~/dist/m4/m4.spec
>m4 = 1.4.16-2.fc15
>m4(x86-64) = 1.4.16-2.fc15
>m4-debuginfo = 1.4.16-2.fc15
>m4-debuginfo(x86-64) = 1.4.16-2.fc15
>[pmatilai at localhost rpm]$
>
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