[Rpm-ecosystem] hawkey be more informative on failure to solve a goal?

[Michael Mraka]

Anne Mulhern wrote:
% That is definitely like what I want (although I feel like I would prefer something more structured
% than a list of strings that have to be parsed by a client application).
% 
% But I was playing around with it and I noticed another thing that puzzled me.
% 
% A Package has attributes requires, provides, recommends, suggests, supplements, enhances, conflicts
% but the contents of the requires attribute clearly correspond to what is listed
% as BuildRequires, not what is listed as Requires (for my spec file).
% Can you tell me what is going on there?

Sure, you are querying source rpm, not built (binary) one. And Requires
of source rpm are the BuildRequires from spec.

% Thanks!
% 
% - mulhern
% 
% P.S. My python interactions look something like this:
% 
% >>> pkg = q[0]
% >>> g.install(pkg)
% >>> g.run()
% False
% >>> g.problems
% ['nothing provides gettext needed by python-blivet-1:1.0.0.0-1.el6.src']

Here you can see it is source rpm                                 ^^^^^^^^^


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Software Management Engineering, Red Hat