Dynamic provides and requires dependency

Orion Poplawski orion at nwra.com
Sat Dec 23 04:22:47 UTC 2023


On 12/22/23 18:19, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Is there for a way that a package's %build or %install script can 
> generate additional Provides: and Requires: dependencies?
> 
> Doing some digging, I found the (relatively) recently developed dynamic 
> buildrequires, and %generate_buildrequires.
> 
> What I'm looking to do is something analogous, but have %build or a 
> %install generate additional dependencies to supplement Requires:, 
> Provides:, and the automatically-generated dependencies.
> 
> I suppose I can override %__find_requires and %__find_provides, and have 
> that run my own script first, then the default ones.

You want this:

https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/dependency_generators.html


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