On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Michael Mraka<michael.mr...@redhat.com> wrote: > Fedora Hosted Git Repositories - spacewalk.git/rss log: > % Add spacewalk-backend Requires on python-pgsql. > % > % Add spacewalk-backend Requires on python-pgsql. > % > % • [DH] backend/spacewalk-backend.spec > % > % URL: http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=commitdiff;h= > % e56e4e9dc2959c28553350533a6b2dcea92a73f7 > % --- a/backend/spacewalk-backend.spec > % +++ b/backend/spacewalk-backend.spec > % @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Requires: python, rpm-python > % # /etc/rhn is provided by spacewalk-proxy-common or by spacewalk-config > % Requires: /etc/rhn > % Requires: rhnlib >= 1.8 > % +Requires: python-pgsql > % BuildRequires: /usr/bin/msgfmt > % BuildRequires: /usr/bin/docbook2man > % BuildRequires: docbook-utils > > This is wrong for 2 reasons: > > a) Such dependency should not be in spacewalk-backend but > spacewalk-backend-sql > package which is "Core functions providing SQL connectivity for the RHN > backend modules". > b) It means you have to install both oracle and postgresql for spacewak now > which is weird. > > We should rather have meta dependency e.g. spacewalk-backend-db and > spacewalk-backend-oracle and spacewalk-backend-postgresql packages which both > provide spacewalk-backend-db and requires appropriate oracle/postgresql stuff. > So you can install one or another. >
The meta dependency does sound more reasonable. How would this affect installation? Seems it won't be just yum install spacewalk anymore. Would it be yum install spacewalk spacewalk-backend-postgresql? or turn into yum install spacewalk-postgresql and yum install spacewalk-oracle? jesus _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
