failed dependency

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/23/2016 11:42 AM, Heyman, Jerrold wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>  
> 
> I have two RPMs, one which is dependent on a library installed by the other.
> 
> Both are 64bit Intel binaries/libraries, and it works just fine if I turn off
> dependency checking (--nodeps).
> 
> Obviously this is not something I want as using –nodeps will also cause an
> invalid installation if the dependent RPM isn’t there.
> 
>  
> 
> rpmA is the full package necessary to execute the command included in rpmA
> 
> rpmB is a debug package, containing a debug (non-stripped) version of the
> binary and non-stripped shared library.
> 
> rpmA installs an additional shared library – stripped – that rpmB also needs. 
> It is this shared library that causes the dependency failure when installing rpmB
> 
>  
> 
> [root at heymaj1-test build]# rpm -q --provides rpmA
> 
> RPMA
> 
> librpma.so
> 
> rpmA = 1.0.0.1-000000
> 
> rpmA(x86-64) = 1.0.0.1-000000

You should also have:

librpma.so.()(64bit)

listed here.  Could be because the execute permission bit is not set for the
shared library which is required for the automatic provides generator to work.

> 
> [root at heymaj1-test build]# rpm -U --test rpmB.x86_64.rpm
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
> 
>                 librpma.so()(64bit) is needed by rpmB.x86_64
> 
>  
> 
> The library is installed correctly in /opt/emc/productname/lib
> 
> Does that need to be /opt/emc/productname/lib64?

No.




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