Re: Redhat 9 RPM dependency problem

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, han.holl@tietoenator.com wrote:

> If I run 'rpm -qp --requires postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm' on a
> freshly downloaded RH9 rpm, I get:

<snipped>

> Notice libpq.so.3. and libecpg.so.4 (of the 7.x series).
>
> This means that 8.0.3 declares itself dependent on the earlier version of the
> libpq library, thus forcing me to install the compat-postgresql-libs, even
> though I have no software installed that actually needs the old libraries.
>
> This looks like a RPM packageing error, probably because of a problematic
> configuration on the machine of the packager.
> I did a rebuild from the source rpm, and now the phony dependencies are gone.

Thanks for the report. My Red Hat 9 machine is an ancient one, it will
take some hours for a rebuild. Will inform you about the test after that.

Regards,
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