[CentOS] up2date dependency problem

Mon Nov 13 11:00:44 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 04:59 +0300, Alexey Loukianov wrote:
> Greetings, centos.
> 
> Looks like postinstall scriplet in CentOS4.4 distro requires
> /sbin/restorecon utility, which in turn resides in policycoreutils
> package. Meanwhile, up2date don't require policycoreutils.
> It seems to that there is an error in dependencies for up2date.
> 

That is one of about a million (OK, maybe not a million :P) of what I
like to call "hidden requires".

These sort of things exist throughout the EL4 code base, but since
CentOS builds from upstream sources ... and since we want to remain 100%
compatibility where ever possible, we can't usually change these kind of
issues in CentOS directly.

However, since up2date is a package that has to have major modifications
anyway, I think we might be able to add that require (if required ...
I'll study the SPEC later, though initial an peek confirms what you
say).

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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