From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7
Message-ID: <200509192206.j8JM65xb030055@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <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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