[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] add support for scriptlet deps in generated deps

[Thierry Vignaud]

In Mageia, we eg had:
1) manual "requires(post)" or "requires(posttrans): info-install"
    (info-install being the package containing /sbin/ /sbin/install-info
2) plus manual %post or %posttrans calling install-info

This was a manual process, so it was sometimes missed in some pkgs.

We've replaced those manual requires+scriptlets by a filetrigger.
But we still want info-install to be installed, so in order to replace
the manual requires, we want to automatically emit the requires on
info-install
But we don't want to emit "requires: info-install",
what we want really is "requires(posttrans): info-install"

The patch enables to emit requires for scriptlets or filetriggers.
See you

Le mer. 12 sept. 2018 à 10:34, Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobrain at fedoraproject.org> a écrit :
>
> What is the point of this? I just don't get the use-case..
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:32 AM Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Le sam. 8 sept. 2018 à 09:10, Thierry Vignaud
>> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > The attached patch adds support for scriptlet deps in generated deps.
>> > Eg on Mageia, there's a file trigger for automatically
>> > installing/removing info pages from /usr/share/info index
>> >
>> > Having manual or auto generated "Requires: ..." mean some strong
>> > deploops in base packages which rpmlib can break at random places,
>> > sometimes borking scriptlets.
>> >
>> > What we want in such a case is "Requires(posttrans): ..;" as
>> > filetriggers will be run late anyway.
>> >
>> > This patch enables to do that (but only in internal deps generators)
>> >
>> > Example:
>> > %__info_requires        %{_rpmconfigdir}/mageia/info-file.req
>> > %__info_scriptlet       posttrans
>> > %__info_path    ^%{_datadir}/info/.*\\.info.*$
>> >
>> > See you
>>
>> Can you consider this one for inclusion?
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> -Igor Gnatenko