How to disable AutoReqProv on shebangs for a specific script file ?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 6/19/22 19:06, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Good day -
> 
>    I am trying to develop a .spec file for an RPM that ships
>    a template script that references a non-existent
>    dependency in its she-bang line:
> 
>    '#!<some file that does not exist (yet)>'
> 
>    How to disable autoreqprov from including that
>    non-existent file in %requires ?
> 
>    ie. the resultant RPM ends up with
>     'Requires: <some file that does not exist (yet)>',
>    simply because an executable script, not
>    meant to be run by any code on the host,
>    references it in its shebang line.
>    I think changing the script to be
>    not executable is not the correct
>    answer here - now all scripts that
>    depend on it being executable have
>    to be modified to do a 'chmod +x'
>    on it. This is not an acceptable
>    workaround for RPM needlessly
>    injecting an unwanted 'Requires'
>    that I can't get rid of.

You can chmod -x the script in the spec to disable dependency generation 
on it, but still make it executable in the package with %attr(0755,-,-) 
(or such) in the %files section.

	- Panu -