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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Adding capabilities to an RPM Post 302219283 by Boaz on Monday 28th of July 2008 07:22:35 PM

07-28-2008

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Adding capabilities to an RPM

Hi.
I downloaded a package that could only be installed on RHEL5, and not 4 or 3, so I got the source in order to compile it on RHEL 3 so hopefully it will work on all versions.

So I have the source for a working package, but when I build it in RHEL 3 and then try to install it in RHEL 5, it has a dependency, let's call it libX.so.5. I'm trying to add this capability to the package so I can recompile it and then use it on RHEL 3 4 and 5 without dependencies. However, I have no experience with building RPMs.

I've tried adding /usr/lib/libX.so.5 to the files list in the spec file, but it doesn't seem to have removed the dependency.

Anyone know how I can do this? Basically, I'm trying to add a file/capability to a package so that it's no longer a seperate dependency.

More information: The package also had a subpackage that, to build, required too high a version of python, so i deleted the subpackage's spec file and directory. This is information in case that may have broken something.

Thanks!
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order

order(4)                                                           File Formats                                                           order(4)

NAME

       order - package installation order description file

DESCRIPTION

       The package installation order file, .order, is an ASCII file specifying the order in which packages must be installed  based on their pre-
       requisite dependencies.  Any  package with prerequisite dependencies must be installed  after any  packages  it  lists  as  a  prerequisite
       dependency in its depend file.

       A .order file is required for the OS product. The .order file must reside in the top-level directory containing the product.

       The  ordering is specified as a list of package identifiers, from the first package to be installed to the last, one package identifier per
       line.

NOTES

       The depend file supports incompatible and reverse  dependencies.  These dependency types are not recognized in the order  file.

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