[CentOS] Dependency error for perl-Digest-Perl-MD5

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Thu Dec 13 09:54:50 UTC 2007


Mark Pryor wrote:
>> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/false is needed
>> by package perl-Digest-Perl-MD5
>>
> Sure the SPEC is broken since the dependency is on a
> binary file from package coreutils, rather than
> another  RPM.

just curious: isn't it OK for a SPEC to have a dep on a file rather than 
a package?
Although in this case the path is wrong, it's /bin/false on centos, so 
the depsolver must fail.



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