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Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7

From
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 22:06 UTC
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<200509192206.j8JM65xb030055@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
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<pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Sean wrote:
[...]
> > You need to install ShellQuote with rpm rather than installing it >
> > directly from CPAN.  You can pick up a rpm version of ShellQuote from
> > several places, here's one: http://tinyurl.com/7p7ey
> IMHO rpm shouldn't care how ShellQuote got there unless it (how it got
> there) is stated as an explicit dependency in the spec file (which it
> isn't).  So I still think this is a bug in rpm's (automatic)
> dependency mechanism that needs fixing.

If it needs ShellQuote, it is required. RPM does know only about things in its database (i.e., rpm-installed).

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  1. Horst von BrandSep 19, 2005

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