Re: RPM dependency generator ignoring %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that they contain DT_NEEDED fields). Any ideas on that? There's a lot of documentation about how to exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include these. My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared libraries don't really need to be executable but they always have been in Fedora and the dependency generator ignores ones which aren't. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: RPM dependency generator ignoring %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
On 11/10/2016 11:44 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into >> >> %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so >> >> Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies >> for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that >> they contain DT_NEEDED fields). >> >> Any ideas on that? There's a lot of documentation about how to >> exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include >> these. > > My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared libraries > don't > really need to be executable but they always have been in Fedora and the > dependency generator ignores ones which aren't. > It's not just that. Packages that are outside the strict %{_libdir} path aren't supposed to be automaticatlly generated, since they're assumed to be package-internal and not exposed to the world. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: RPM dependency generator ignoring %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:44:53PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into > > > > %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so > > > >Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies > >for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that > >they contain DT_NEEDED fields). > > > >Any ideas on that? There's a lot of documentation about how to > >exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include > >these. > > My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared > libraries don't really need to be executable but they always have > been in Fedora and the dependency generator ignores ones which > aren't. Very good catch! Indeed they were not executable. I'll see if setting proper mode fixes things. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: RPM dependency generator ignoring %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
On 10/11/16 16:47, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 11/10/2016 11:44 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that they contain DT_NEEDED fields). Any ideas on that? There's a lot of documentation about how to exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include these. My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared libraries don't really need to be executable but they always have been in Fedora and the dependency generator ignores ones which aren't. It's not just that. Packages that are outside the strict %{_libdir} path aren't supposed to be automaticatlly generated, since they're assumed to be package-internal and not exposed to the world. I think this was requires generation, not provides, which should happen everywhere. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: RPM dependency generator ignoring %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:48:59PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:44:53PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > >I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into > > > > > > %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so > > > > > >Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies > > >for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that > > >they contain DT_NEEDED fields). > > > > > >Any ideas on that? There's a lot of documentation about how to > > >exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include > > >these. > > > > My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared > > libraries don't really need to be executable but they always have > > been in Fedora and the dependency generator ignores ones which > > aren't. > > Very good catch! Indeed they were not executable. I'll see if > setting proper mode fixes things. Yes that's fixed it, thanks again. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org