Re: Adding provide to systemtap.spec for systemtap-testsuite rpm

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

William Cohen wrote:
> Some people may notice that systemtap-testsuite rpm does not install without 
> "--nodeps" because systemtaptestsuite requires "stap", but nothing provides it. 
> The one line patch add a provides to the systemtap rpm and allows the 
> systemtap-testsuite rpm to be installed normally via rpm.

Instead of that, how about adding stap filtering rule to __find_requires macro?

> Any comments about the patch? Go ahead and check it in? Or does anyone have 
> better ideas on how to eliminate this issue?

I'm not completely sure why it requires 'stap'. When I built it, the
systemtap-testsuite package built with bundled_elfutils required stap, but
without bundled_elfutils, it did not required stap.
So, I think it is caused by a special filter defined in systemtap.spec when
bundled_elfutils is enabled.

> 
> -Will
> 

Thank you,
-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com