tar BR

Zsolt Udvari udvzsolt at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 11:16:59 CEST 2010


Hi all!

Is this needed to add tar BR some packages?
E.g.
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/packages/awesome/awesome.spec.diff?r1=1.91;r2=1.92
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/packages/texlive/texlive.spec.diff?r1=1.324;r2=1.325
Etc.

On carme:

poldek:/all-avail> uninstall -t tar
mark tar-1.23-5.i686
Processing dependencies...
tar-1.23-5.i686 marks geninitrd-10000.20-5.noarch (req tar)
tar-1.23-5.i686 marks util-vserver-0.30.216-0.pre2864.2.i686 (req tar)
  util-vserver-0.30.216-0.pre2864.2.i686 marks
vserver-distro-pld-0.30.216-0.pre2864.2.i686 (req util-vserver =
0.30.216-0.pre2864.2)
tar-1.23-5.i686 marks rpm-build-4.5-43.i686 (req tar)
  rpm-build-4.5-43.i686 marks rpm-build-tools-4.4.39-1.noarch (req rpm-build)
There are 6 packages to remove (5 marked by dependencies):
R tar-1.23-5.i686
D geninitrd-10000.20-5.noarch  rpm-build-4.5-43.i686
rpm-build-tools-4.4.39-1.noarch
util-vserver-0.30.216-0.pre2864.2.i686
D vserver-distro-pld-0.30.216-0.pre2864.2.i686
This operation will free 3.4MB of disk space.

So rpm-build{,-tools} requires tar, so IMHO the tar BR is unneeded.

Zsolt


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