[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Introduce a new qualifier for meta dependencies (RhBug:1648721) (#1028)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Thu Jan 30 14:26:40 UTC 2020


Add a new "meta" qualifier for expressing dependencies that are not
concrete install- or run-time dependencies, and thus should not take
part in install ordering.

There are quite a lot of such dependencies in the wild, for example
versioned sub-package cross-dependencies are typically of this type
and a common source of unnecessary dependency loops. Another common
case are dependencies of meta-packages.
You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1028

-- Commit Summary --

  * Introduce a new qualifier for meta dependencies (RhBug:1648721)

-- File Changes --

    M build/parsePreamble.c (1)
    M lib/formats.c (2)
    M lib/rpmds.h (6)

-- Patch Links --

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1028.patch
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1028.diff

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