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Václav Kadlčík commented on JBDS-4257:
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[~nickboldt], I'm afraid this is some kind of misunderstanding. This ticket is about
rh-eclipse46-devstudio.rpm having too many Provides. That leads to accidents where
rh-eclipse46-devstudio.rpm is dragged as a dependency for some other RPMs.
In other words, in this ticket we do not discuss what Devstudio needs but what it
unnecessarily provides ("advertises") in its RPM declaration.
{{rpm -q --provides -p ./rh-eclipse46-devstudio-10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7.x86_64.rpm}}
lists 500+ items while only few make sense in our situation. There should be
* rh-eclipse46-devstudio = 10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7
* rh-eclipse46-devstudio(x86-64) = 10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7
This is all. We can safely add several others (rh-eclipse46-osgi(com.jboss.devstudio.*)).
The rest don't have any use now but can create troubles (like the one [~lvalach]
experienced).
rh-eclipse46-devstudio provides packages that are dependencies of
rh-eclipse46
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Key: JBDS-4257
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4257
Project: Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (devstudio)
Issue Type: Bug
Components: build, rpm
Affects Versions: 10.3.0.AM2
Environment: RHEL7
Reporter: Lukáš Valach
Assignee: Nick Boldt
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 10.3.0.GA
Attachments: rh-eclipse46-devstudio_provides.txt, rh-eclipse46_provides.txt,
yum_install_rh-eclipse46.png
I noticed rh-eclipse46-devstudio is installed as dependenci when installing rh-eclipse46.
!yum_install_rh-eclipse46.png|thumbnail!
[~vkadlcik] said that it is because rh-eclipse46-devstudio offers some package which
rh-eclipse46 needs, so yum decides to use devstudio as library.
He said that the best practice for end-user application like rh-eclipse46-devstudio is to
have less amount of stuff in "rpm -q --provides". Rh-eclipse46 provides 4
packages, devstudio provides 539 packages.
[^rh-eclipse46_provides.txt]
[^rh-eclipse46-devstudio_provides.txt]
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