[Rpm-maint] How to change a file name that rpmbuild creates?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Thu Jan 10 14:04:32 UTC 2008


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Pixel wrote:

> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> writes:
>
>> c) Filter out the perl(Local::...) dependencies. Automatic perl
>>    dependency extraction is far from perfect and can add bogus
>>    dependencies to packages, some examples of this can be found
>>    here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl
>
> for information, on mandriva, one can put something like this:
>
> %define _requires_exceptions perl(Foo::Bar)\\|perl(Acme::Buffy)
>
> in the .spec file

Nod, generic dependency filtering is one of the more requested items for 
rpm :)

I'm planning to include something like that sooner or later, but it needs 
to work with the internal dependency generator too, not just external 
dep-extractor scripts.

 	- Panu -



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