handling of symlinks to symlinks in spec file

[Lubos Kardos]

Sorry, I wanted to write, I can't reproduce the problem.

Lubos

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lubos Kardos" <lkardos at redhat.com>
> To: "General discussion about the RPM package manager" <rpm-list at lists.rpm.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8:20:02 AM
> Subject: Re: handling of symlinks to symlinks in spec file
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can reproduce this problem, can you provide a minimal reproducer. Ideally
> the
> srpm package from which the problematic rpm can be built.
> 
> Lubos
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Domen Vrankar" <domen.vrankar at gmail.com>
> > To: "General discussion about the RPM package manager"
> > <rpm-list at lists.rpm.org>
> > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 9:02:09 PM
> > Subject: handling of symlinks to symlinks in spec file
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Someone reported to me an issue regarding rpm and symlinks to symlinks.
> > I've reproduced it on Fedora 21 and 23.
> > 
> > Let's assume, I have a library, e.g. liblibrary.so.5.6.7 and I have
> > two symbolic links, so the result of "ls -l" would look like this
> > 
> > liblibrary.so -> liblibrary.so.0
> > liblibrary.so.0 -> liblibrary.so.5.6.7
> > liblibrary.so.5.6.7
> > 
> > and part of spec file would look like this
> > 
> > %files
> > %defattr(-,root,root,-)
> > "/usr/lib/liblibrary.so"
> > "/usr/lib/liblibrary.so.0"
> > "/usr/lib/liblibrary.so.5.6.7"
> > 
> > When running "rpm -i project1.1-Linux.rpm" it outputs a dependency
> > resolution error
> > 
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >     libtest_lib.so()(64bit) is needed by project1-1.2.1-1.x86_64
> > 
> > Either removing library.so from spec file or setting
> > 
> > Autoreq: NO
> > 
> > in it removes the error.
> > 
> > Is this a bug in rpmbuild automatic dependency resolution for symlinks
> > to simlyinks?
> > Is there is something that should be set in spec file for such cases?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Domen
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