[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: rpmlib efi provides (#438)

[Jeff Johnson]

The problem with probes (like your patch) is that RPM is attempting to run a dependency assertion checker whose values are known at the end of an installation, not at the beginning, by also checking added packages.

Since a /sys path is dependent on both a kernel capability as well as the mount being performed, and there are no details contained in added package metadata to help resolve the probe dependency, there likely would need to be disablers on the probe namespace when rpmtsCheck() is called to permit, say, the transition from a non-uefi -> a uefi based system that contained a probe dependency.

I personally do not think that the inability to resolve a probe dependency against added packages or depsolver metadata as the sine qua non, but YMMV. The point has been brought up in the past however.

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