[Rpm-ecosystem] Source RPM provides?

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:49 AM Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> I've been doing a fair bit of mapping back and forth from binary rpms to
> source rpms.  And I had a question:
>
> Would it make sense for a source rpm to have a generated 'Provides:' for
> any %package defined within the spec?
>
> For example (actual syntax to be determined by folks smarter than myself):
>
> $ rpm -qp --provides man-db-2.8.4-4.fc30.src.rpm
> rpmbuild(man-db)
> rpmbuild(man-db-cron)
> $
>
> I'd expect it to 'provide' all the %packages (even ones masked for your
> specific arch so that we don't deal with executing macros at query and
> whatnot).
>
> Thoughts?
>

It'd probably be better if we had an equivalent to debbuild's
--showpkgs switch that parsed the spec file and identified what
packages would be built from it.


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